Sex, Politics and Social Change in Asia
New Dehli, 2016
Institution code: COMM2253 (RMIT University - Melbourne campus)
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Teaching period: Semester 1/2018
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Role: Coordinator, Lecturer, Tutor
Syllabus:
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Theorising Gender
Week 3: Public holiday (No lecture or tutorials)
Week 4: Politics and/of Social Change
Week 5: Modern Media, Modern Intimacies
Week 6: Queer Asia: Orientations, Practices and Identities
Week 7: Sex Tourism, Sex Industries
Week 8: Gender, Race & Class: Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia
Week 9: ‘Fathers’, ‘Mothers’ and ‘Nations’
Week 10: Liminal Genders: Transgender, Breaking the Binary
Week 11: Television, Dating and Power in China
Week 12: Hong Kong Cinema: A History of Cultural and Political Anxieties