Prof Clare Hemmings Tower 1.11.01J

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 Europe: Culture and Conflict, MSc in Global Europe: Culture and Conflict (LSE & Sciences Po), 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; transformation of intimacy; abortion and migration; transgender studies and bisexuality; 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 1500 word critical analysis to be submitted at the end of week 5 and an essay outline to be submitted at the end of week 9 (for written feedback and discussion in office hours). 

M.Jacqui Alexander (1994) ‘Not Just (Any) Body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality and Postcoloniality in Trindad and Tobago and the Bahamas’, Feminist Review. 48: 5-23.

Mark Blasius and Shane Phelan (1997) We Are Everywhere: a Historical Sourcebook in Gay and Lesbian Politics (New York: Routledge).

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

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

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

Eithne Luibheid (2011) ‘Nationalist Heterosexuality, Migrant  (Il)legality, and Irish Citizenship Law: Queering the Connections’, South Atlantic Quarterly 110. 1: 179-204.

Gayle Rubin (1984) ‘Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality’, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds Abelove and Halperin (Routledge, 1993), pp. 3-44.

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

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

assessment is due at the beginning of LT.

 

This is to alert students to the actual timing of the assessment.