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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Sheila Jeffreys.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the ways in which gender politics might affect the study of international relations;
- understand how government policy and other forces operating in Australia and other western countries are affecting the lives and opportunities of women and relationships between men and women in the rest of the world;
- be familiar with developments in feminist theory on the issues of human rights, cultural relativism;
- have an understanding of international gender politics which can enrich their study of other subjects in the social sciences.
Content:
Subject will look at issues of gender and sexuality in an international context, starting from the idea of the importance of women's rights as human rights, and of gendering international relations. It will cover war and militarism and their effect on women, women's peace movements, the international division of labour, development and environmentalism, the effects of religious fundamentalisms, the politics of population and reproductive technologies, international trafficking in women, sexual violence, femicide, clioridectomy, the organisation of homosexuality and heterosexuality. It will also consider women's initiatives internationally for peace, the environment and against violence
Assessment:
Written work totalling 5,000 words.
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p152) : Next:166-228 | Prev:166-226
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-228 | Prev:166-226
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Sheila Jeffreys.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the ways in which gender politics might affect the study of international relations;
- understand how government policy and other forces operating in Australia and other western countries are affecting the lives and opportunities of women and relationships between men and women in the rest of the world;
- be familiar with developments in feminist theory on the issues of human rights, cultural relativism;
- have an understanding of international gender politics which can enrich their study of other subjects in the social sciences.
Content:
Subject will look at issues of gender and sexuality in an international context, starting from the idea of the importance of women's rights as human rights, and of gendering international relations. It will cover war and militarism and their effect on women, women's peace movements, the international division of labour, development and environmentalism, the effects of religious fundamentalisms, the politics of population and reproductive technologies, international trafficking in women, sexual violence, femicide, clioridectomy, the organisation of homosexuality and heterosexuality. It will also consider women's initiatives internationally for peace, the environment and against violence
Assessment:
Written work totalling 5,000 words.
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Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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