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Module Title
LM Sexuality, Gender and Representation
School
Lan, Cult, Art Hist & Music
Department
Modern Languages
Module Code
09 22192
Module Lead
Lisa Downing
Level
Masters Level
Credits
20
Semester
Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions
None
Exclusions
Description
This module focuses on issues of sexuality and gender representation in theoretical, visual, and literary texts, as well as case studies, drawn from a range of disciplines. It encourages students to reflect critically upon and interrogate received categories of sexuality and gender identity that are constructed, articulated, performed and represented in a variety of texts and socio-cultural contexts. Discussion also centres on representations and embodiments of sexuality and gender that seek specifically to dismantle or to disturb received categories. The module considers sexual and gendered identities as they intersect with other aspects of individual subjectivity, such as race, ethnicity.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module the student should:
approach the subject of sexuality and gender studies, and the phenomenon of gender representation of sexuality and gender, from an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed and historically-anchored perspective, consolidated by their reading of key texts in the sexuality and gender studies area;
be able to appraise a particular cultural product or an analysis of one or more relevant theories in the light of the material studied during this module.
