Gender Sexuality and Regulation - HIB1041

Assessment 1: Written plan

This module will be assessed both formatively and summatively. Formative assessment will be undertaken during the module teaching and the opportunity will be provided to submit and receive formative feedback on a short plan for each assignment.

Written Plan

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

In this module you’ll look at a range of contemporary debates and issues related to gender and sexuality and their intersections with other social identities to explore how they are constructed, regulated, and represented - including in the media and popular discourse. You’ll investigate these categories through a range of topics including regulating gender and sexuality; regulating access to gendered public spaces; regulating gender and deviant ‘women; regulation (gendered) bodies; growing up gendered; the regulation of sexual / sexed bodies; children, childhood, sexuality and sexual abuse; regulating sexual abuse in/through the media; commercial sex work(ers) and (gendered) regulation.
You’ll explore these issues and debates through a range of ‘cultural texts’ – such as films, documentaries and docudramas, TV and radio programmes, newspaper and magazine articles, novels and literature - as well as the academic / sociological literature. This will enable you to develop a greater understanding of gender and sexuality and an awareness of how such understandings both shape and are shaped by a variety of cultural texts.
You will look at gender and sexuality and explore the significance of these categories in relation to crime, deviance and regulation. You will explore a range of topics from children and crime, deviant women, men, masculinity and crime, and sexual/domestic violence. You will also watch videos, documentaries and news broadcasts and analyse how this construct and represent gender and crime.

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HIB1041 - Gender Sexuality and Regulation

Gender Sexuality and Regulation

Critically analyse knowledge concerning understandings of sexuality within sociology.


Explain how perceptions of gender and/or sexuality interact with perceptions of ‘deviance’ and regulation.

Critically analyse knowledge concerning understandings of gender within sociology.


Offer core academic debates and perspectives concerning the relationships between sexuality and regulation and the intersection with other social identities.

Analyse and evaluate different theoretical perspectives on gender and/or, sexuality and their relationship to deviance and regulation.

Offer core academic debates and perspectives concerning the relationships between gender and regulation and the intersection with other social identities.