Prof Clare Hemmings COL5.01C

This course is available on the MSc in Culture and Society, MSc in Gender, MSc in Gender (Research), MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation, MSc in Gender, Media and Culture, MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Human Rights and MSc in Media and Communications. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

‘Sexuality, Gender and Culture’, introduces students to historical and theoretical components of the field, and explores case studies of the development of sexual cultures, identities and social movements from the late 19th century to the present. The course provides theoretical foundations in this area through a case-study based approach. Indicative topics include: colonialism and sexuality, sexualisation of culture; abortion and migration; transgender studies and disability; queer theory and social movements. The course is interdisciplinary and demands a high level of student participation, but does not require a background in the field. It is also available as a first half of a full unit ‘Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation’ .

15 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT.

seminars come before lectures

One 2000 word critical analysis to be submitted at the end of week 5 and a essay outline to be submitted at the end of week 9. 

Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott (Eds) (1996) Femist Sexuality: A Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

Laura Ann Stoler (1995) Race and the Education of Desire (Durham: Duke University Press);

Michel Foucault (1978) History of Sexuality: Vol 1 (New York: Pantheon)

Lisa Adkins (2002) Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity (OUP);

Rosemary Hennessy (2000) Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism (New York: Routledge);

Clare Hemmings (Ed) (2014) 'Sexuality' in M Evans et al The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory (London:Sage)

Audre Lorde (1978 in 1993) 'The uses of the erotic: the erotic as power' in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (London: Routledge)

Tom Shakespeare (2006) Disability Rights and Wrongs (New York: Routledge).

Essay (100%, 4000 words) in the LT.