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131-032 Contesting Genders: From Wollstonecraft to De Beauvoir | |
Note | Formerly available as 131-219/319. Students who have completed 131-219/319 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Professor P Grimshaw & Dr S Swain |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year History, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture/workshop and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject examines the history of the women's movement in the west and Australia from 1790 to 1950, and the key influential texts that shaped activists ideas. Through the works of writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Frederick Engels, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Simone De Beauvoir, the subject explores the contribution of liberal, socialist and radical feminists to the politics of the women's movement. The challenge of post-colonial critiques to the Eurocentric character of the women's movement will be considered. The subject evaluates the ways in which Europeans in Australia received and modified reformer's ideas on gender, within a colonial context. |
Assessment | A research essay of 2500 words, and a reflective essay of 1500 words, and 10% class participation |
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