Breaking binaries: How gender is lived and theorised

In this unit you will explore how gender is theorised, embodied, and lived in social life. You will be introduced to a range of exciting contemporary feminist theories and contextualise these within histories of feminist and queer thought and political action. You will critically analyse fundamental feminist theories of gender, bodies and sexual difference, and how they help us to understand and critique binary thinking around gender, the cultural and social regulation of shifting forms of gendered identities and performance and the norms of sex, reproduction and desire. Topics covered include sexed bodies and science, gendered violences, gender at work, intersections of race, sex and gender, and gendered futures.