Monash University Handbook 2010 Undergraduate - Unit

Synopsis

This unit will ask how ideas about femaleness, (and implicitly maleness) about the female body and sexuality are represented within a range of texts - eg prose, poetry, film. It will pose such questions as to what extent do these texts inscribe or critique femaleness as biologically determined, and/or as construed or performed? What are some of the alternatives to a rigid masculine/feminine model to account for sexual difference and for the mechanisms of desire?

Assessment

Written work: 70% (3000 words)
Class test: 30%

Chief examiner(s)

Jacqui Wiegard

Contact hours

2 hour seminar per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

English

Prerequisites

A first year sequence in English