History of Sex and Sexuality

• • LGBTIQ identities and cultures
  • Heterosexuality
  • Ancient Greece and Rome
  • The church
  • The Victorians
  • Teenagers
  • Medicine and science
  • Colonisation and empire
  • Law and regulation
  • Marriage and relationships
  • Prostitution
  • Pornography
  • Sexual revolutions
  • Birth Control
  • Disease

Others

This is a Level 2 subject. Completion of at least one Level 1 History subject.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This unit explores histories of sex and sexuality from antiquity to the present. Taking a chronological approach, we will investigate diverse topics including pornography, marriage, crime, birth control, sexology, sexual revolutions, queer lives and the internet.  The course focuses on practices, identities and attitudes in Europe, the US and Australia and considers how gender, class and ethnicity inflect public narratives and intimate lives.  We will examine the different meanings people and institutions have attached to desire, bodies, and sexuality and think about our contemporary lives and possibilities.

Commonwealth Supported Students who intend to complete a Griffith University Subject as Cross-Institutional Study in a degree from their home institution need to complete a Cross-Institutional Study application form, to ensure the correct fee is charged.

• Tutorial reading responses (15%)
• Case Study (35%)
• Essay (50%)

Current study term: 17 Jul 22 to 14 Oct 22

Next study term: 06 Nov 22 to 15 Jan 23