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MHIS245: Currency Lasses and Chesty Bonds: Gender in Australian History
This unit surveys women and gender in Australian history. We explore the ways that gender shaped Indigenous societies, and how racial hierachies shpaed the experience of gender in Australia. We will explore the gendered origins of the penal settlements, and the different experiences of male and female convicts. What did the colonial frontier mean for men and women? How has gender shaped national identity, political development, high and popular culture? Howe can we read political struggles through a gendered lens? How have experiences of fatherhood and motherhood changed throughout Australia's history? We will explore the impact of World War I and II on gender relations and gender identties, including the ways the ANZAC legend shaped understandings of masculinity, and the rise of the teenager in the postwar world. We will examine the impact of the various liberation movements of the 1970s. Finally we will explore the ways that Australian culture and media have shaped contemporary femininities and masculinities.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | 2012 - Next offered in 2012 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Michelle Arrow, Associate Professor Robert Reynolds |
| Prerequisites: |
12cp or (3cp in HIST or MHIS or POL units) |
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| NCCW(s): | HIST245 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations |
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