Browse Hierarchy CMC5011: Culture, Gender and Sexuality

This module explores the relationship between issues of gender, sexuality and culture as key factors in human identity, development and society. It critiques traditional and static understandings of gender and sexuality, drawing on the insights of a diversity of disciplines, including those of gender studies, critical theory, queer theory, feminist theology and feminist criticism. The module encourages students to question their existing 'common sense' understanding terms such as gender and sexuality, and to think about the uses to which such terms are put in contemporary culture. The aim of this module is not to provide the answers, but to ask questions.