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.

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Credit points

EFTSL

0.125

Band

Band 1

Field of Education

Language and Literature, n.e.c. (091599)

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