POL3003 Gender,
Sexuality and Capitalism
Credits: 15
Semester: 1
Assessment: Item
1: 30% Essay (1500 Words) 2: 70% Essay
(2500 Words)
Module
Convenor: Dr Alexander Stoffel
What do the most personal
aspects of our lives — gender, sexuality, sex, intimacy, families,
relationships — have to do with capitalism? How are our gender and sexual
identities shaped by global hierarchies of work, race, citizenship, property,
and status? Can capitalism exist without gender and sexual oppression?
In this module, we will grapple
with these questions through feminist, queer, and trans thought and practice.
These engagements will take us across a diverse range of topics and sites:
housework and domestic services, care and emotional labour, beauty and
cosmetics, the global tourist industry, sex work, and anti-capitalist struggles
for gender and sexual freedom.
This module is running for the first time in 2024/25
