Overview

This topic offers an introduction to key concepts and approaches in Women's and Gender Studies and explores how experiences and ideas of gender are entangled with sexuality, disability, class, race and climate change. The topic introduces students to questions of gender and power in everyday life and social institutions and … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to introduce students to some basic concepts of Women's and Gender Studies through issues and debates about sex and gender in Australian society. It provides students with appropriate language and conceptual tools to consider the various ways the diversity of gendered experiences are formed through relations with colonialism, race, ethnicity, class, disability, sexuality and climate change.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Critically analyse the concepts of gender, sex and identity and use them appropriately
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Theorise the ways race, ethnicity, class, disability and sexuality intersect with experiences of gender and sex
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Critically discuss academic literature from the field of Women's and Gender Studies
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Discuss issues arising from debates relating to sex, gender and feminism

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