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131-447 Gender and Social Change: Asian Pacific Perspectives

Year 4 History.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Dr V Mackie.

Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

On completion of this subject, students should be able to: understand concepts such as gender, class, ethnicity, feminism, social change, colonialism, postcolonialism, modernity, postmodernity; understand processes of migration, agrarian transformation, industrialisation and post-industrialisation in Asia and the Pacific; critically examine writings on gender and social change in Asia and the Pacific.

Content:

Relationship between gender and social change in selected regions of Asia and the Pacific, drawing on the theoretical perspectives and insights of a number of social science and humanities disciplines, especially history and anthropology.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6,000 words.

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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