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Start dates
- 31 Jul 2023
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Subject details
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- • In what ways does sexuality have a history?
- • How has the relationship between sexuality and gender identity changed?
- • What does it mean for sex to be repressed or liberated?
- • The influence of sexual technologies.
- • Changing understandings of sexual capacity and consent.
- • Trauma informed approaches to histories of sexual violence and harassment.
- • Sexuality, romance and religion.
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Prerequisites: Students must have completed 60 credit points of Level one subjects. Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed HIS2SCS (Histories of Sexuality : Gender, Power, Pleasure and the Body) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
In this subject students examine histories of sexualities. We consider changing meanings assigned to sexed and gendered bodies and sexual behaviour and the emergence of sexual and gender categories and identities. We explore how the sexual and gendered body has been subject to social control and regulation. How did the state regulate sexuality and gender diversity? Why were some forms of sexuality and gender behaviour criminalized? What generated moral panics over sexuality? What role did the press play in sex scandals? We consider marriage, birth control, gendered sexual violence, influence of sexology and sexual reformers and nationalism, race and sexuality. We examine the formation of sexual sub-cultures and sexual liberation movements to current LGBTIQA politics and culture. Through analysing sexuality debates we examine shifting notions of transgression and deviance and explore sexuality, gender, power and resistance and the transformation of sexual cultures, ideas and practices.
- One 1,000-word essay (25%)
- One 2,250-word research essay. Students are expected to share their preliminary and draft versions of their research essay in the tutorial. (50%)
- Tutorial activities (1,250-words equivalent) including written analysis of tutorial readings and peer feedback on draft research essays. (25%)
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