This course introduces you to feminist and queer perspectives on sex, gender and sexuality. You will investigate how dominant categories of sex, gender and sexuality function through close readings of texts that blur the boundary between philosophy and literature. Textual forms you may study include theoretical and philosophical essays, films and various literary genres, such as poetry and the novel.

You will explore how dominant representations depend upon the marginalisation and exclusion of others. You will study the relationship between feminist and queer perspectives on sex, gender and sexuality. This will include engagement with texts in trans studies, critical philosophy of race and whiteness studies.