Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (ANTH20008)

This subject offers an anthropological perspective to understandings of gender and sexuality, providing an empirical, cross-cultural framework with which to examine various theoretical frameworks. It embraces a historical perspective to disciplinary knowledge and evaluates the central role of anthropology’s distinct research method in shaping representations of gender, sexuality, and cultural diversity in the world today.

Through this disciplinary framing, the subject explores a comparative range of ethnographic case studies and applies them to themes and concerns of kinship and social relatedness, masculinities, third gender, heterosexualities, sex tourism, bodily surfaces, poly-relations, and new reproductive technologies.