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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1 including ARTS1900 or 30 units of credit at Level 1 including 12 uoc in Level 1 History
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Equivalent: HIST2721, WOMS2107
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Subject Area: Women's and Gender Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: History
The course offers a modern history of 'feminist' movements, issues and ideas. It responds to the postcolonial feminist demand that women's many differences be recognized by focusing upon women's struggles for rights, equality, bodily integrity or more autonomy in various parts of the world, including the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa. The object, moreover, is not just to ‘include’ the ‘Other’ woman in such a way that would suggest that ‘western’ societies are necessarily more privileged or progressive than others, as if there were in Australia or the United States, for example, no ‘Third World within’.
Another way in which the content of the course is inspired by postcolonial feminism is in its recognition that sexism or gender issues cannot be divorced from discrimination based upon class, race/ethnicity, (1st/3rd) ‘worldism’, and other markers of identity.
