This unit aims to develop students' critical skills in cultural analysis, particularly around the historical and structural relations of power as they operate through gender and sexuality, race and class, in contemporary life and popular culture. As such, the unit questions the ways bodies and sexualities are positioned in the 'spaces' of contemporary Western culture. It is interested in everyday practices as sites of potential subversion or maintenance of the status quo, and so draws on accessible cultural media like television, cinema and the internet, sites like the home, shops, and workplace, as well as popular understandings of technology, advertising and politics as 'texts' that we... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Alison Bartlett
Prerequisites: GEND1901 Days of Our Lives: Gender in Australia (formerly WOMN1102 Days of our Lives: Gender in Australia) and GEND1902 Reading Bodies or with the approval of the unit coordinator
