121-066 Sexing the Self

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Mary Patterson

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

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

Subject Description

This subject explores the construction of gender and sex in a variety of the world's societies. On completion of the subject students should 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 the anthropology of sexual reproduction.

Assessment

An essay, tutorial assignment and take home exam totalling 4000 words.



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