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131-219/319 Changing Concepts of 'Woman'S Place': Europe, the United States and Australia, 1850-1990

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Professor P Grimshaw.

Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.

Contact: Two hours of lectures/workshops and a 1-hour tutorial a week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate a general knowledge of the strands of feminist theory current in the United States, Europe and Australia over 150 years; show awareness of the interrelationship of theorists' ideas and the practices of feminist activists and social reformers; understand the economic and social changes which gave rise to redefinition of gender in the modern period; appreciate the ways in which Europeans in Australia received and modified feminist ideas within their historically specific context.

Content:

The history of feminist theory and feminist movements from the nineteenth century to 1990, in the context of economic and social change in Western, industrialising societies, including Australia.

Assessment:

A 2500 word research essay (60%), an orally delivered class paper (10%), a 2000 word reflective essay (30%).

Prescribed texts:

1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p100) : Next:131-220 | Prev:131-216


2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p126) : Next:131-220 | Prev:131-216

131-219/319 Changing Concepts of 'Woman'S Place': Europe, the United States and Australia, 1850-1990

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Professor P Grimshaw.

Contact: Two hours of lectures/workshops and a 1-hour tutorial each week.

Timetable: Second semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate a general knowledge of the strands of feminist theory current in the United States, Europe and Australia over 150 years; show awareness of the interrelationship of theorists' ideas and the practices of feminist activists and social reformers; understand the economic and social changes which gave rise to redefinition of gender in the modern period; appreciate the ways in which Europeans in Australia received and modified feminist ideas within their historically specific context.

Content:

The history of feminist theory and feminist movements from the nineteenth century to 1990, in the context of economic and social change in Western, industrialising societies, including Australia.

Assessment:

A 2500 word research essay (60 per cent); an orally delivered class paper (10 per cent); a 2000 word reflective essay (30 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

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2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p126) : Next:131-220 | Prev:131-216


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