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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Anthropology

136-293/393 Anthropology of Gender

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Mary Patterson

Prerequisite/s:

Normally one first year Anthropology subject (12.5 points).

Contact:

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

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 women's and men'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 5000 words.
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