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GEN210: Reading Gender in Everyday Life
This unit examines how gender functions in our day-to-day lives. We look closely at common activities like shopping, eating, grooming, talking, reading, going to the movies, using cosmetic surgery, getting married and more, to examine some of the discourses—biological, cultural, social, anthropological—that reproduce ideas of masculinity and femininity, of being a man or woman. We look at intersections of gender with class, ethnicity, and race. We also introduce students to some of the influential ideas on how gender works, theories by European philosophers like Freud and Foucault, as well as essays by feminist activists and post-modern writers on gender and sexuality.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (Session Dates: 26 February) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Judy Lattas |
| Prerequisites: |
12cp |
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| NCCW(s): | WST210 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Sociology |
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