This module focuses on the critical examination of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity as intersecting categories of identity, oppression and resistance. The module analyses the way we construct meanings about these social constructions within contemporary societies that privileges some and marginalizes “others” through systems of stratified social hierarchies. It emphasizes on deconstructing these social constructions in order to understand how they play out in private and public lives within an Asian context. Through this examination, students are able to understand how race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality affect the changes, life chances and life experiences of individuals, and how such distinctions become and remain relevant.
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Socially Constructing Inequality:
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Racialized Gender and Sexualised Race: