16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr J Damousi. History students: normally, 25 points of first year History. Women's Studies students: any two first year subjects. First semester One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should be able to: demonstrate a sound understanding of the main developments in feminist theory; understand the issues involved in debates about feminist knowledge; demonstrate knowledge of the main conceptual schemes dealing with the relationships between gender, class and race; and show understanding of the key approaches exploring various dimensions of gender relations in cross-cultural contexts. This subject examines a number of central theoretical issues in the study of gender relationship past and present with a main focus in the Australian and Asian-Pacific region. Theoretical issues such as the gendering of knowledge, the sexual division of labour, the relationships between ethnicity, class and gender, the construction of femininity and masculinity, and the dichotomy of public and private are considered from historical, anthropological, sociological and psychological perspective. Tutorial participation (10%); two essays totalling up to 5,000 words (45% each). Ramazanaglu C Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression London, New York, 1989 Tong R Feminist Thought Colorado, 1989 16.7 Dr J Damousi. First semester. One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week. Students completing this subject should be able to: demonstrate a sound understanding of the main developments in feminist theory; understand the issues involved in debates about feminist knowledge; demonstrate knowledge of the main conceptual schemes dealing with the relationships between gender, class and race; and show understanding of the key approaches exploring various dimensions of gender relations in cross-cultural contexts. This subject examines a number of central theoretical issues in the study of gender relationship past and present with a main focus in the Australian and Asian-Pacific region. Theoretical issues such as the gendering of knowledge, the sexual division of labour, the relationships between ethnicity, class and gender, the construction of femininity and masculinity, and the dichotomy of public and private are considered from historical, anthropological, sociological and psychological perspective. Tutorial participation (10 per cent); two essays totalling up to 5,000 words (45 per cent each). Ramazanaglu C Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression London, New York, 1989 Tong R Feminist Thought Colorado, 1989 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr J. Damousi. History students: normally, 25 points of first year History. Women's Studies students: any two first year subjects. First semester One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should be able to: demonstrate a sound understanding of the main developments in feminist theory; understand the issues involved in debates about feminist knowledge; demonstrate knowledge of the main conceptual schemes dealing with the relationships between gender, class and race; and show understanding of the key approaches exploring various dimensions of gender relations in cross-cultural contexts. This subject examines a number of central theoretical issues in the study of gender relationship past and present with a main focus in the Australian and Asian-Pacific region. Theoretical issues such as the gendering of knowledge, the sexual division of labour, the relationships between ethnicity, class and gender, the construction of femininity and masculinity, and the dichotomy of public and private are considered from historical, anthropological, sociological and psychological perspective. Written Assignments to a total of not more than 5,000 words. Norma Grieve & Ailsa Burns (eds) Australian Women: Contemporary Feminist Thought, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994 Kate Pritchard Hughes (ed) Contemporary Australian Feminism, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1994