GSSA 4001 - Hons Gender Stud & Social Analysis Common Course

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2015

This course aims to provide a general introduction and theoretical survey of the discipline of Gender Studies. It offers grounding in important concepts in gender studies, for instance the social construction of gender; gender and the body; the history of feminist thought; feminist and qualitative epistemologies; masculinities and femininities; and intersectional approaches to gender, class and ethnicity. The latest directions and debates in gender studies and feminist thought are introduced when appropriate to student needs, for instance versions of performativity or 'new materialism'. A sample of other topics can be included by negotiation and according to student research interests, such as discourse analysis, whiteness studies, sexualities and `sex wars', `third wave' feminisms, ecofeminisms, or gender in popular culture. Throughout the course concepts and debates are placed in the context of traditions in social theory in general, encouraging students to develop and define their own theoretical `location' and interests.

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