Module SOC2016 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC2016: Gender and Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993.
Robert Connell, Masculinities. London: Allen and Unwin, 1995.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. (Vol. 1, An Introduction). London: Penguin, 1981.
Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy. Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. London: Polity Press, 1992.
Sander Gilman, Making the Body Beautiful: a Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 1998.
Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialisation of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender From Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Beverly Skeggs, Formations of class and gender: becoming respectable. London: Sage. 1997.
