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CUL222: Gender, Sexuality, Culture: Queer Theory
What is Queer Theory? Rather than attempting to answer this question by identifying a school of thought that is seemingly coherent, unified, stable, and definable, the aim of this unit is to offer a partial mapping of Queer Theory's heterogeneous terrain. Whilst the term queer is used in multiple and even contradictory ways in the texts we examine, for the most part, it functions—at least potentially—to problematise normative consolidations of sex, gender, sexuality. Queer Theory's reconfiguration of these terms and the relations between them, is formulated across a broad range of (often overlapping) topic areas which address issues such as (dis)ability, pleasure, addiction, racialisation, transgenderism, and so on. As a result, each of these concepts and the lived experience(s) of them, is simultaneously (trans)formed. Throughout the unit we critically examine the ways in which such (trans)formations are mobilised in and through a variety of contemporary texts.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Nikki Sullivan |
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| NCCW(s): | CUL204 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies |
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