MA/PGDip Gender, Sexuality and Culture

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• MA (full-time)
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This option is divided into thematic sections, most of which will have more than one seminar attached to the topic, with an introductory session on the 'discovery' of a 'women's history' and the subsequent channels for historical inquiry that followed in its wake. The course pays close attention to the concepts and categories that have been developed to understand embodiment, sexuality and interiority.

- The discovery that history is sexed

- Gender as a category of analysis

- Flesh and Body Stories

- Histories of Sexuality

- Approaches to race, class, gender and sexuality

- Sexual identities and interiority

- Sexualties, bodies and power

- Reproductive lives and technologies

This module explores methodological and historical concerns in gender and sexuality via intense and closely focused seminar reading, starting with an overview of major practitioners and paradigms in the field before moving on to a set of key concerns. Each week will include a set of core texts. In addition, students will read an additional article in their own areas of interest

- Understand the intellectual history of women's and gender history.

- Explain major debates and controversies in the field.

- Demonstrate familiarity with major themes addressed by women's and gender historians in comparative perspective.

- Understanding of historiographic debate.

- Understanding of gender theory.

- Select insights and approaches from one period, region or discipline and apply them to another.

- Formulate a research question based on scholarly literature at the forefront of the disciplines studied and adopt an appropriate method for addressing and answering that question.

- To develop analytical skills which can be applied to primary or secondary material.

- To synthesize in a meaningful and incisive manner a wealth of information gathered and analysed through independent research.

- To identify and assess the significance of historical context for contemporary debates and issues.

- Locate, retrieve and assimilate relevant information from primary and secondary sources.

- Compile systematic bibliographies and to present them according to scholarly conventions.

- Present complex ideas in coherent and accessible form in oral, visual and written format.

- Identify, analyse and apply a wide range of data.

- Formulate and design a range of proposals; identify appropriate intellectual, methodological and resource toolkit for successful completion of proposal.

- Draw up a specialist bibliography on a research topic.

- Manage a sustained program of regular weekly work.

- Present ideas fluently in writing and oral presentation to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

- Gain experience in problem solving, leadership and teamwork.

- Articulate and develop informed and reasoned argument in written and oral form.

- Organise own learning through self-management and work to deadlines.

- Using ICT for research and presentation purposes.

- Demonstrate the ability to work in a group and show leadership.

- Identify, analyse and apply a wide range of data to formulate and solve problems.

- Ability to bring analytical and research skills to bear on the formulation and design of proposals.

- Apter, Emily S. Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
- Berridge Virginia and Phillip Strong eds, AIDS and Contemporary History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.- Bérubé, Allan, John D'Emilio, and Estelle B. Freedman. Coming out under Fire : The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Ii. 20th anniversary ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Butler, Judith Bodies that Matter (Hoboken, 2011)
- Carden-Coyne, Ana The Politics of Wounds. Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015),- Cornwall, Andrea, ed. Readings in Gender in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
- D'Emilio, John. Making Trouble : Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. New York: Routledge, 1992.
- Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Revised Edition. Revised ed. London: Routledge, 2002.
- Foster, Thomas A. Long before Stonewall : Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
- Gagen, Wendy Jane ‘Remastering the Body, Renegotiating Gender: Physical Disability and Masculinity during the First World War, the Case of J.B. Middlebrook’, European Review of History, 14:4, (2007), p.525-541
- Helen King, The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence. (Farnham, 2013) – introduction, 'Making Sense of Making Sex'. Ebook.
-Canning, Kathleen, ‘The Body as Method? Reflections on the Place of the Body in Gender History,’ Gender and History 11: 3 (1999), pp. 499-513.
- Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
- Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987
Roper, Michael The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (Manchester, 2009), Chapter 7 ‘The Return of the Soldier’ pp. 276-313.
- Riley, Denise. "Am I That Name?": Feminism and the Category of "Women" in History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1988.
-  Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
- Vicinus, Martha. Lesbian Subjects : A Feminist Studies Reader. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
- Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992

Note: 

Experience with using historical primary and secondary sources and methods of analysis is mandatory for students on this course unit.