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The study of sexuality and gender diversity encompasses a broad range of fields and disciplines. This module, team-taught by staff from several ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûDepartments, combines theoretical, historical, social, legal, and cultural analyses of sexual and gender diversity with a range of case studies drawing on current research interests. Organised around broad themes it introduces key critical frameworks such as queer theory, LGBT and transgender studies. There will also be opportunities to explore sexual and gender diversity as aspects of global politics and to consider how these categories intersect with multiple axes of identity and belonging. Specific themes and case studies covered may vary from year to year subject to staff availability.

Preparatory Reading

Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke UniversityÌý

Press, 2007Ìý

Eng, David, Judith Halberstam and Jose Esteban Munoz, What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?.Ìý

Special issue of Social Text. Durham, NC, 2005.Ìý

Fahs, Breanne and McClelland, Sara I. ‘When Sex and Power Collide: An Argument for CriticalÌý

Sexuality Studies.’ The Journal of Sex Research 53, nos 4–5 (2016): 392–416.Ìý

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, 3 vols. London: Penguin, 1978–85.Ìý

Fuss, Diana, ed. Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories. London: Routledge, 1991.Ìý

Johnson, E. Patrick, and Mae G. Henderson, eds. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham,Ìý

NC: Duke University Press, 2005.Ìý

Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. London: Penguin, 1990.

Sullivan, Nikki. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Warmer, Michael. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life. New York: Free Press, 1999.

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