| Unit name | Sexing the Empire: Gender, Race and the Body in the British Colonial World |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HISTM2008 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Dr. Reid |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Over the last few decades, scholars across a range of disciplines have begun to chart a multitude of connections between gender, sex, race and the body. This unit introduces students to key aspects of this scholarship by focusing on a series of case studies from across Britain and empire from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. It examines how a plethora of ideas about difference as well as identities and lived practices of gender, sex, race and the body interacted and informed one another in a range of historical periods and contexts. The unit will include seminars on: whiteness and sexuality, black peril (or rape) scares, discipline and the colonial body, slave bodies and resistance, prostitution and empire, children&�s literature and empire, masculinity and colonialism, gender and emigration, and domesticity and the colonial home. Students will engage with a range of primary source materials including: travel writing, contemporary accounts, official reports, photographs and paintings, literature and film.
