BAENG2001 Gender and Sexuality in Literature, Screen and Digital Media
This unit examines the representation of gender and sexuality in literature, screen, and digital media. Gender and sexuality are crucial to our sense of identity, impacting how we define ourselves and our relationships with others. Literature, screen, and digital media texts can play an important role in influencing how we perceive and think about gender and sexuality. Specific texts may encourage readers and viewers to accept dominant stereotypes by portraying certain roles and desires as natural and inevitable. Alternatively, they may subvert hegemonic assumptions by depicting alternatives beyond the gender binary and heteronormativity. This unit examines how gender and sexuality are represented in literature, screen, and digital media, engaging with issues including power, desire, spectatorship, intersectionality, post-feminism, and gender performativity. Drawing on feminist, masculinities, queer, and intersectionality theories, the unit critically examines the representation of gender and sexuality in a variety of literature, screen, and digital media texts.
Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
A CSP is subsidised by the Australian Government and students pay a contribution amount. Each unit is classified into a band, depending on the study area of the unit (this discipline may be different from the study area of your course).
2025 contribution amount* $578
2025 grandfathered contribution amount* $578
Grandfathered contribution amount - if you are a continuing student, who commenced your course before 1 January 2021, you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented, for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.
* For Clinical Psychology & Professional Pathways bands the unit fee amount is determined by accredited courses. Students in Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, Professional Pathway Psychology or Professional Pathway Social Work accredited courses should refer to the information below.
