Course

Bodies, Habits and Pleasures - ARTS5040

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: HIV Social Research

Course Outline: Contact NCHSR Postgraduate Coordinator

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Research

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course investigates the cultural, social and political aspects of sex and drug practices using theories of embodiment. We approach the body as a locus of power, pleasure, learning, subjectivity and change. What happens when we conceive the body as a cultural medium rather than (or as well as) a mere object of health and medicine? How do social and cultural approaches enliven the doing of health? How are sexuality and drugs grasped by modern regimes of power? And how have marginalised cultures and groups sought to transform embodied practice? Students will gain familiarity with important concepts from fields that are currently redefining the sociology of health, including science studies, corporeal feminism, queer theory, biopolitics, and governmentality studies.


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