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Explores the ways in which power works to shape gender by examining the gendered nature of the institutions and experience of education, government, work, violence, law and other areas of life using a range of disciplinary perspectives. The unit stresses the ways in which we negotiate gender, albeit within the limits of history and place, and includes focus on organised movements for change. This is done against a background of the history of developments in feminism and Women`s/Gender Studies over the last thirty years. Attention is paid to contemporary gender issues in Australia and their global context.
WEIGHT:
12.5%
ASSESSMENT: 2-hr exam (40%), 1,000-word short essay (15%), 1,500-word long essay (35%), tutorial participation (10%)
TEXTS Required A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended Texts Hughes KP (ed),
Contemporary Australian Feminism, ISBN 0582808715
Van Acker E,
Different Voices: Gender and Politics in Australia, ISBN 0732953952
Huggins J,
Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins, ISBN 0702228400
Lake M,
Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism, IBSN 186508137X
Bulbeck C,
Living Feminism: The Impact of the Women`s Movement on Three Generations of Australian Women, ISBN 0521465966
Boles J,
From the Goddess to the Glass Ceiling: A Dictionary of Feminism, ISBN 1568330723
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