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| Under Graduate Degree |
Year module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English |
Module presented online |
| Purpose: This module aims to enable students to engage in advanced interpretation of literary texts written in English in relation to issues of gender and sexuality, as well as the intersections of these issues with race, class and other axes of unequal power distribution. It will enable students to: thoughtfully engage with literary works in relation to the perspectives they articulate on gender and sexuality; identify and transform the meanings associated with gender and sexuality (and related notions such as self, identity, the body, etc.); challenge existing hegemonies; reconfigure power relations; and open up new understandings of gender and sexuality. As gender and sexuality are two of the key nexuses of subject-formation and inequality in twenty-first century society across the globe, and as patriarchy is ubiquitous, this module will also provide students with an informed standpoint from which to effect social change in issues relating to gender. |