131-447 Gender, Globalisation and Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

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Subject Description

This subject examines the 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. Topics will include: problems of writing about gender and differences; debates on modernity and post-modernity; gender, colonialism and postcolonialism; gender, politics, the state and civil society; masculinities, femininities and sexualities; gender and the New International Division of Labour; gender and agrarian change, gender and development agencies; tourism and sexual politics; gender in the 'industrial' and 'post-industrial' orders and gender and human rights.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 6000 words.