This course will consider the social and cultural construction of normal and abnormal bodies and behaviour. We will consider issues including the overt and covert regulation of the body, particularly by medical and legal institutions. We will examine polluted and polluting bodies; celebratory bodies; the creation of sexual deviance; transgressive bodies, medical technology and intervention; sick bodies and the sociology of death.

Lectures, seminars and independent study.

Library
OHP
TV and VCR equipment
Computers with standard University software package
Internet

Del LaGrace Volcano & Judith 'Jack' Halberstam (1999) The Drag King Book.
Foucault, M. (1981) The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1.
Holliday, R. and Hassard, J. (2001) Contested Bodies
Cavalluro, D. (1997) The Body for Beginners