In this subject students undertake a rigorous and detailed analysis of the notions of sex, gender and sexuality in a wide variety of cultural and political contexts. There is throughout the subject a central focus on how gender identities are constructed in cultures other than 'First World', 'white', 'Western' ones. Students examine in depth how social and political institutions function to regulate sex, gender and sexuality in a broad range of cultures. In its approach to the comparative study of social and personal regulatory processes in these areas, this subject concentrates on reversing the prevailing prioritisation in Western social theory of contingent local models in exploring and explaining sexual and gender identities.

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