Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC2034: Gender and Society 1

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following themes over one or more week:

Sex/gender debates and the critique of biological determinism
Masculinities
Bodies
Femininities
Sexuality
Feminism
Love and Intimacy

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity	22	11 x 2 hours per week comprising of lectures and seminars
Guided Independent study	77	Module research, reading (4 hours per week) and preparation for class (3 hour per week)
Guided Independent study	51	Research and writing for summative assessments

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Web based and electronic resources:

Course materials (including lecture slides and tutorial topics/questions) will be provided on ELE prior to each lecture/tutorial.

ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3120

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.

Basic reading:

Attwood, Feona 2009 Mainstreaming Sex. The sexualisation of Western culture. London: I.B. Tauris.

Susan Bordo, Susan 2003 Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Connell, Raewyn. 2005 Masculinities. London: Polity.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne 2012 Sex/gender: biology in a social world. London: Routledge.

Foucault, Michel 1990 The History of Sexuality. London: Penguin.

Halberstram, Judith 2013 Gaga feminism: sex, gender, and the end of normal. Boston Mass: Beacon.

Rahman, Morin and Jackson, Stevi 2010. Gender and sexuality. London: Polity.