WSM4180 - Sex, Power, Self: Feminist Interventions in Contemporary Discourse
12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader: JaneMaree Maher
Offered
Not offered in 2009
Synopsis
This unit explores contemporary feminist theorisings about the mutually constitutive concepts of 'the body', sexual and gender difference, together with notions of female subjectivity and 'self'; anxieties concerning comparison, authenticity and identity which permeate debates about embodied consciousness; situated knowledge; and 'female experience' through the study of three interconnected arenas - sex, power and self.
Assessment
Essay (6000 words): 50%
Examination (3 hours): 50%
Contact hours
2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week
04 December 2008
05 December 2008