Elective

CLIT7010 Questioning Sexual Difference

This course continues the interrogation of gender and sexual difference initiated in CLIT7006 Fabrications of Identity. Drawing on theorists who have built on Freud’s understanding of human sexuality through the Greek myth of Oedipus as well as those who have actively countered Freudian psychoanalysis, this class explores a range of perspectives that challenges our commonsense understanding of sex and gender. Topics may include the history of sexuality, sexual revolutions, sexual subcultures, alternative or “dissident” sexualities, socialism and sexuality, feminist critiques of consumerism and domesticity, postmodern bodies, the politics of sexual orientation, transvestitism and transsexuality, queer identity and desire.