166-024 International Gender Politics

Note

Availability

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year Politics subject. Students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the second/third year coordinator.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This 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, the international division of labour, the effects of religious fundamentalisms, the politics of population and reproductive technologies, international trafficking in women, sexual violence and clitoridectomy. 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.

Assessment

Two essays of 2000 words each.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.