Prof Clare Hemmings COL.5.02

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

Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation, takes a case-study approach to questions of sexuality, gender and culture (in the first term) and a broad range of sexual formations in relation to nation and globalization (in the second). The full unit considers a variety of ways in which sexuality is central to the social sciences in today’s globalised world. Theoretical approaches will be woven through the course via case study material so as not to provide a false opposition between example and approach. The course will allow a more thorough grounding in this area than the half unit, and will include a high element of student participation and group work. It is interdisciplinary but does not have a pre-requisite.

10 hours of lectures and 20 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 20 hours of classes in the LT.

One 2500 word critical analysis to be submitted at the beginning of week 8 (MT); presentation of key readings with a partner in at least one seminar (MT); seminar facilitation with feedback (LT); submission of draft abstract for conference presentation by the beginning of week 6 (LT).

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

Cindy Patton & Benigno Sanchez-Eppler, Eds (2000) Queer Diasporas (Durham: Duke University Press);

Jon Binnie (2004) The Globalization of Sexuality (London: Sage);

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);

David Evans (1993) Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities (New York: Routledge);

Laura Agustin (2007) Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry (London: Zed Books);

Jasbir Puar (2007) Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham: Duke UP);

Amy Lind (2010) Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (New York: Routledge);

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

Essay (70%, 5000 words) in the ST.
Presentation (30%) in the LT.

The presentation, which will be given at a student conference, includes the submission of a 300-500-word abstract.