Gender and Sexuality

Masculinity, femininity, gender, equality, discrimination, love and sex. Explore all of this and more in this sub-theme.

Are genders inherent or performed, binary or multiple, affirming or constraining? How do ideas of gender and sexuality impact on families and society, and do all cultures think the same? What about gender and violence, sex and deviance, or love and ecstasy? How are these issues dealt with in law, by the arts, and by religion?

Gender and Sexuality modules:

23 modules available.

This information is for the 2024/25 academic year.

IF YOU ARE AN INCOMING YEAR ONE STUDENT, YOU SHOULD ONLY CHOOSE LEVEL 1 MODULES. 

Module Code Module Title Level
ARAB1150 Early and Medieval Islamic History 1
CLAS1300 The Greek World: an Introduction 1
FOAH1100 Creative Africas: Culture and the Arts in Modern Africa 1
LLLC1321 Women, Culture and Islam 1
SLSP1181 Crime and Society 1
SLSP1191 Identities and Inequalities 1
THEO1133 Introduction to Christian Theology 1
THEO1177 Religion, Politics and Society in the Modern World 1
HIST2080 Voices of the People: Speech, Language and Oral Culture in Early Modern Europe 2
HIST2430 The History of Africa since 1900 2
IDEA2001 Love: Ethical, Social and Political Issues 2
LLLC2222 Violent and Sexually Offending Young People 2
PECI2714 Politics, Identity and Performance 2
PRHS2000 Human Rights and Religion 2
THEO2720 Religion, Gender and Society 2
FOAH3150 Religion and Violence 3
HIST3723 Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy 3
LUBS3001 Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective 3
LUBS3002 Diversity Management 3
MEDV3411 Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics 3
PIED3207 International Development and Social Policy 3
PIED3611 Radical Political Ideas 3
SLSP3500 Gender, Technologies and the Body 3