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Global Intimacies: Sex, Power, Gender and Migration 

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Global Intimacies: Sex, Power, Gender and Migration
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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

1,139

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Global Intimacies: Sex, Power, Gender and Migration
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Global Intimacies: Sex, Power, Gender and Migration
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Weekly study 2 hours
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Global Intimacies: Sex, Power, Gender and Migration
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FutureLearn 
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  • Develop your understanding of how our notions of intimacy have been changed by the intersection of money, mobility, and power with gender, love, and sex
  • Explore the shifting meaning of intimacy.
  • Also discuss LGBTQ+ migrants, sex tourism, and overseas surrogacy as you examine how global mobility is challenging traditional ideas of femininity and masculinity
  • Introduced to scholarly approaches to gender and queer studies, as well as ethnographic case-studies on globalisation and migration.
  • Analyse how capitalism and its resulting economic disparity is challenging our concept of love, labour, and sex and ponder the agency of the individual in a capitalist society

Global Intimacies: Sex, Power, Gender and Migration
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Migrant Domestic Workers

Introduction

Gender and Feminism

Labour Migration in a Global Economy

Evolving Definitions of Intimacy

Cross-Border Marriages and Sex Tourism

Cross-Border Marriages

Sex Tourism

Transnational Mobility, Gender, and Intimacy

LGBT Migrants and Asylum Seekers

Cultural Construction of Sexuality

Sexuality and Migration

LGBT people seeking asylum

Understanding Sexuality and Migration

Transnational Surrogacy

Surrogacy and Culture

Surrogacy evolving into a transnational industry

Construction of motherhood

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