Overview

This topic engages students with the voices and knowledges of Indigenous women in Australian contexts. It takes a history of colonialism as its starting point and investigates how ideas around race and its practices, interwoven with gender, shape the lives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Specific subject matter may include … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Support students to critically reflect on the history and ongoing presence of colonialism in Australia and on their own position in this context
  • Enable students to engage with the knowledges of Indigenous women in Australian contexts
  • Enable students to critically assess the ethics and relevance of non-Indigenous conceptual frameworks for understanding the intersection of gender, race and colonialism

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Examine Australian Indigenous women's knowledges and the issues faced by them in an ethical way
2.
Debate research and other knowledges on colonialism, race and gender with reference to Indigenous women in an ethical manner
3.
Appraise historical and contemporary Australian events using Australian Indigenous Women’s knowledges
4.
Integrate theoretical understanding of Australian Indigenous Women’s knowledges with real-world situations

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