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136-293/393 Anthropology of Gender

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Dr Mary Patterson.

Prerequisite: Normally one first year Anthropology subject (12.5 points).

Contact: A 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should:

• have an understanding of the construction of gender in a variety of the world's societies;
• have gained a knowledge of gender-based systems of social classification in non-Western societies;
• have acquired a knowledge of contemporary critiques of the representation of womení s and mení s lives in ethnography; and
• have explored problems of gender bias in ethnographic research and writing.

Content:

Cross-cultural and comparative perspectives on the social construction of gender, with a focus on ideologies of femininity and masculinity; gender-based classification systems; interrelations of gender, power and authority.

Assessment:

Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.

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