Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* one core subject
* three elective subjects
Core subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
121-216 Sex, Gender and Power
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
121-217 The Future of Sex and Gender
How is the future of sex and gender imagined in the world today? Key themes will include: the increasing instability of concepts of sex and gender and their transformations; a focus on theories of gender equity in the face of persisting gender inequa... Semester 2 12.50
121-218 Genders, Bodies, Borders
This subject looks at the central place of gendered meanings in diverse cultural contests globally, focussing on the increasingly gendered and sexualised character of these contests. The contests examined include: the wars over 'the family'... Semester 1 12.50
Elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
121-216 Sex, Gender and Power
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
121-217 The Future of Sex and Gender
How is the future of sex and gender imagined in the world today? Key themes will include: the increasing instability of concepts of sex and gender and their transformations; a focus on theories of gender equity in the face of persisting gender inequa... Semester 2 12.50
121-218 Genders, Bodies, Borders
This subject looks at the central place of gendered meanings in diverse cultural contests globally, focussing on the increasingly gendered and sexualised character of these contests. The contests examined include: the wars over 'the family'... Semester 1 12.50
121-055 Keeping the Body in Mind
This subject introduces a wide range of anthropological interests in the human body from a comparative ethnographic perspective. It considers topics such as body image and eating disorders, body arts and practices, body modifications and decorations,... Semester 2 12.50
121-066 Sexing the Self
This subject explores the construction of gender and sex in a variety of the world's societies. On completion of the subject students should have gained a knowledge of gender-based systems of social classification in non-Western societies; have ... Semester 2 12.50
136-073 Critical Theories
The aim of this subject is to introduce students to and critically examine the major debates in contemporary critical theories from Western Marxism to postmodernism. These critical theories include the German Frankfurt School, French poststructuralis... Semester 2 12.50
136-077 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
102-210 From Mateship to Mardi Gras
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
110-228 The Politics of Gender in China
This subject focuses on the influence of traditions and ideologies on gender issues in China and the East Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore). Students will be encouraged to explore how 'tradition’ continues to shape notion... Semester 2 12.50
760-236 Body and Image: Re-Appraising the Figure
This subject investigates the dialogue between theories and philosophies of human subjectivity and changing representations of the human form in visual media. The subject has a strong conceptual, theoretical and historical basis that is investigated ... Semester 2 12.50
760-250 Nymphs, Sluts and Madonnas
This subject is a study of the representation of women in art, film, theatre and writing. Students of this subject will explore a variety of feminist critical strategies in the study of historical and contemporary works created by both male and femal... Semester 2 12.50
106-047 Art/Pornography/Blasphemy/Propaganda
This subject provides an introduction to the history and politics of censorship of the arts in the West since the 1890s. It examines the contested boundaries between art and its presumed 'others' - pornography, blasphemy and propaganda - by... Semester 2 12.50
106-058 Scandal, Sex and Sentiment
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-060 Decadent Literature
This subject examines decadence as a textual, historical, sexual and cultural formation, across a range of literary texts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A predominantly masculine mode of radical aestheticism, manifesting symptoms of... Semester 1 12.50
106-210 Romance and Melancholia
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-218 Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution
This subject maps the intertwined (and sometimes antagonistic) trajectories of Romanticism and early Feminism, as they emerge in Britain in the wake of the American and French Revolutions. Drawing on prose, poetry and drama from this period (includin... Semester 2 12.50
106-226 Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
What is lifestyle? When and how did the concept develop, and what functions does it serve in consumer culture today? How does it relate to parallel concepts like taste, style and identity? This subject frames lifestyle as the site where consumer cult... Semester 1 12.50
106-233 Performing Gender
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-024 The Body: History, Sex & Gender
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-033 A History of Sexualities
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-085 Witches and Witch Hunting in Europe
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
110-231 Women in Arabic and Islamic Literature
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
136-205 Cybersociety
In this subject students will engage in a study of high-technology and information systems in a social and cultural context, and will examine critical issues which lie at the intersection of the social and the technical. Topics covered include cybern... Semester 1 12.50
136-209 Intimacy and Technology
Intimate Technologies are those that we use to understand ourselves, and that we use to establish and maintain our relations with others. The subject approaches technologies of intimacy through a wide variety of examples and case studies - technologi... Semester 2 12.50
166-024 International Gender Politics
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-032 Sexual Politics
This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body, gender and sexuality. Issues analysed in the subject include transsexualism, reproduction, eating diso... Semester 1 12.50
166-090 Love, Family and Sexuality
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-209 Sociology of the Body
For sociologists, the human body is not just a physical/psychological entity, it is a key site of the social. This subject will critically examine ways of thinking sociologically about the body in society. By outlining an historical context, this sub... Semester 2 12.50
