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'Family Values' in the 21st Century - GEN320
This is the Capstone and Honours feeder unit for the Gender Studies major. Family values are increasingly invoked in Australia and other Western nations as the 21st century unfolds. The prevailing mood of fear and fundamentalism carries with it shifts in the relations between the sexes, and other dimensions of difference - race and ethnicity, religion and culture, sexuality, class and age - deepening and compounding their effects of division and domination. Whilst the rhetoric of family values appears to want to return us to an earlier era in our thinking and our social structures, such a transformation of the world is taking place that is impossible to get back to the way things were. It is imperative to explore the changed and changing landscapes of our political life, our popular culture, our experience of home and work, in order to grasp these changes in our Australian context. This unit explores the rhetoric of family values across a range of fields in contemporary Australian culture. Focus topics may be chosen by interest, but unit material will be offered on career v family; politics v religion; gay marriage, adoption, veiling (amongst Muslim migrants), prison v family; gang rape; rape in war.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in Session 2, North Ryde X2 - External study; Offered in Session 2 (On-campus dates: 3 August) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Judy Lattas |
| Prerequisites: |
30cp or admission to GDipArts or permission of Executive Dean of Faculty
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| NCCW(s): | WST310, GEN310 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts |
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