Hot Bodies, Cool Flesh: Sex, Race and the Visual Body

Course aim

To familiarise students with recent approaches to theorising the body from philosophical and post-essentialist perspectives on the body as sexed, gendered, aged, raced and labouring.

Course content

The social cultural, political and economic meanings of sex and the body; feminist theories of the body and visual representations; pleasure, labour, production, nurture, violence and abjection; war, work and play.

Textbook(s)

Anderson, Nicole & Schlunke, Katrina 2008, Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
HUMS 2023	Culture, Place and Meaning
COMM 1033	Introduction to Communication and Cultural Studies

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Workshop (Field work)	3 hours x 1 week
Seminar (Research Session)	3 hours x 3 sessions
Lecture	2 hours x 9 weeks
Seminar	1 hour x 9 weeks
INTERNAL, MAGILL (INTENSIVE)
Workshop (Field work)	3 hours x 1 week
Seminar (Research Session)	3 hours x 3 sessions over 1 week
Seminar	3 hours x 9 sessions over 1 week

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Annotated Folio, Notes on method for annotated folio, Research paper

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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