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Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
HSY2410
History of sexuality 1800 - present
Bain Attwood
8 points + Two lectures and one tutorial per week + Second semester +
Clayton
Synopsis This subject will examine the changing nature of sexuality in
Australia, Britain and North America during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. The main topics will be the construction of masculinity and
femininity, courtship and marriage, family and kinship networks, birth control,
regulation in the private and public spheres, heterosexuality and
homosexuality, the theorisation of sex, sexual reformers and the emergence of
liberation movements.
Assessment Document exercise (1500 words): 20% + Long essay (2500
words): 40% + 2-hour examination (2000 words): 30% + Class participation: 10%
Prescribed texts
- D'Emilio J and Freedman E Intimate matters: A history of sexuality in
America Harper and Row, 1988
- Grimshaw P and others Creating a nation McPhee Gribble, 1994
- Weeks J Sex, politics and society: The regulation of sexuality since
1800 2nd edn, Longman, 1989
Recommended texts
- Duberman M and others (eds) Hidden from history: Reclaiming the gay and
lesbian past Penguin, 1989
- Foucault M The history of sexuality vol. 1 An introduction
Pelican, 1981
- Gay P The bourgeois experience vols 1 and 2, OUP, 1984 and 1986
- Smith-Rosenberg C Disorderly conduct: Visions of gender in Victorian
America OUP, 1985
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