Sexuality and Intimacy

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate an awareness of the application of these approaches to specific areas of social research on sexuality and intimacy.
• Recognise and formulate social science questions.
• Compare, contrast and critically assess essentialism and constructionism.
• Demonstrate your written communication skills.
• Be competent in the use of theoretical perspectives and concepts in anthropology and be able to apply them specifically to the areas of sexuality and intimacy.
• Critically apply sociological concepts to contemporary issues in sexuality and intimacy.
• Further develop your information gathering skills for the collection of appropriate material (print and electronic) for assignments.
• Identify, select and evaluate appropriate data and evidence from social science sources and present conclusions in an appropriate format.
• Consolidate your critical evaluation skills.
• Consolidate your skills of comparative analysis.

LECTURES AND SEMINARS

Sexuality and Intimacy: An Introduction

The History of Sexuality and Intimacy

Intimacy: Definitions and Debates

Intimacy Debates (continued)

Intimacy and Friendship

Challenging Heterosexuality: Theoretical and Political Issues

The Social Construction of HIV/AIDS

The Cultural Construction of Same-Gender Sexual Relations

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Transgender

Sea, Sun and Sex: Sex Tourism and Romance Tourism in a Globalized World

Pornography: The Objectification of Women?

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Weeks, J, Holland, J and Waites, M (eds) (2003). Sexualities and Society: A Reader. Cambridge: Polity.

Seidman, S, Fischer, N and Meeks, C (eds) (2001). Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: OriginalEssays and Interviews. London: Routledge.

Parker, R and Aggleton, P (2007). Culture, Society and Sexuality: A Reader. London: UCL Press..

Summative

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Referral

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