Learning Outcomes:
By completion of this module, students should:
- have a good understanding of key developments, frameworks and concepts in the understanding and constitution of gender and sexuality from the late 19th century to the present;
- be able to assess and critically engage with key theoretical works on gender and sexuality;
- have an advanced understanding of the historical and cultural specificity of conceptualisations of gender, sexuality, and desire;
- have an advanced understanding of the complex interactions of social, cultural, epistemological and representational factors in the constitution of gendered and sexual subjectivities;
- have an advanced understanding of the relationship between theory and politics in feminist and queer work;
- have an advanced understanding of the centrality of race, ethnicity, class and geopolitics to any exploration of gendered and sexual subjectivities;
- be able to bring the above theoretical and conceptual competencies to bear in their analyses of a wide variety of texts and media, including the production of a cogent, high level academic essay, in-class discussion, and evaluation of your own writing and thinking enabled by peer assessment exercises.