This course explores the ways in which macro and micro institutions structure gender and sexual relations in society and how gender and sexual practices in turn structures and stratifies the social order. It addresses our sexual socialization, gender identities and the social consequences of gender stratification. It seeks to promote greater literacy regarding our lives as sexual beings, as gendered beings, and as romantic beings. This course is best suited for mature upper division students. Offered as needed. Jump to the main content of this page.

Over the past couple of weeks in this place, I have asked questions about the status of two Law Reform Commission projects that I think have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of LGBTIQ people. On both occasions, I was disappointed to hear that, in essence, there will be no actionable change in the foreseeable future. This is particularly concerning in relation to the Project report, which was finalised in December last year, so it is getting close to a year ago now. That referral was made in part because the Gender Reassignment Act had been roundly criticised by the High Court of Australia.

Why do Victorian descriptions of British geological history, teaming with trilobites and dinosaurs, sound more like testosterone-fueled, Oriental adventure tales and less like purely scientific descriptions? Why do nineteenth-century scientific accounts of physiology experiments conducted in British medical laboratories sound like narratives of imperial exploration and racial exploitation in Africa? Why do strident Victorian debates about vivisection and animal suffering take the form of misogynistic and homophobic slurs against animal rights activists and accusations of sexual and racial "perversion" against male scientists? Why are Victorian accounts of venomous snakebites and of the invention of antivenom brimming with anxieties about racial, sexual, and transspecies contamination?

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