Course

Gender in Global Politics: Money, Sex and Death - POLS5132

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Social Sciences

Course Outline: School of Social Sciences

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course explores the contributions and insights offered by feminist and gender scholars in the discipline of International Relations (IR). Students are asked to reflect on what it means to recognise gender in the structure, practice and theorising of IR. This programme will explore core subjects in the study and practice of International Relations through a gender lens, tracing the development of a 'canon' of feminist IR. Taking this approach ensures that the course interrogates gendered structures of power and practice, analyses differences or similarities among masculine and feminine subjects in their experience of global politics, and critically assesses the kinds of problems presented by any project of theorising bodies in global politics. Throughout, the course will encourage the development of an informed awareness of specific issues relating to broader concerns around 'money, sex and death' in global politics, including financial practices, economic globalisation, practices and policies of 'gender mainstreaming', rape, genocide, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and postconflict reconstruction.


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