Unit name | Sexuality and Society |
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Unit code | SOCI20072 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. O'Connell Davidson |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
none |
Co-requisites |
none |
School/department | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This module introduces sociological debates on sexuality through a focus on the ways in which sexual lives have been and are socially and legally regulated and policed. It aims to familiarise students with some key examples of the legal and social regulation of female sexuality, homosexual sex, ‘interracial’ sex, paedophilia, and pornography, and to encourage them to think critically about the complicated relationships between sexuality on the one hand, and social divisions of gender, race, class, nation and age on the other, that underpin and are reproduced through such regulation.
On successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:
Two hours lecture and one hour seminar per week
Both assessments assess all learning outcomes
Crisp, Q, (1997) The Naked Civil Servant. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Kinkaid, J. (1998) Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting. Duke University Press.
Robinson, C. (2003) Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press
Seidman, S. (2015) The Social Construction of Sexuality, Third Edition, New York: W. W. Norton
Shoshanna Ehrlich, J. (2014) Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess. Albany: New York State University Press.