WMST1001 Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia

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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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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.

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Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia