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 131-220 Gender, Culture and Society

Note

Available as 131-320 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Assoc. Professor M Stivens

Semester

2

Contact

One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Subject Description

This subject explores the relationships between gender, culture and sociality, with an emphasis on cross-cultural analyses. Topics include feminist analyses of the body and biology; gender, race, class and ethnicities; beauty, identity and consumer society; the gendering of politics; private, public and the future of the family; mothering and assisted reproduction; masculinities, femininities and sexualities, and human rights/women's rights.

Assessment

Tutorial participation (10%); two essays totalling up to 5000 words (45% each).

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