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Gender and Society
Enrolment code: HAF101
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Explores the workings of gender and power in Australia by
examining the gendered nature of the institutions and experience of family,
education, government, work, law and other areas of life using a range of
disciplinary perspectives. This is done against a background of the history of
developments in feminism and Women’s Studies in Australia over the last
thirty years. Attention is paid to contemporary gender issues in Tasmania.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial weekly
Assess: 2-hr exam (40%), written work (50%), tutorial participation (10%)
Required texts, etc:
A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended reading:
Hughes KP (ed), Contemporary Australian Feminism, ISBN 0582808715
Van Acker E, Different Voices: Gender and Politics in Australia, ISBN 0732953952
Huggins J, Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie
Huggins, ISBN 0702228400
Lake M, Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism, IBSN 186508137X
Bulbeck C, Living Feminism: The Impact of the Women’s Movement on Three
Generations of Australian Women, ISBN 0521465966
Boles J, From the Goddess to the Glass Ceiling: A Dictionary of Feminism, ISBN
1568330723
Courses: R3A
The Representation of Gender
Enrolment code: HAF102
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Explores the ways in which gender is represented across a
variety of genres, with an emphasis on popular culture. The unit considers
gendered representations of sport, ethnicity, nation, sexuality and other
phenomena. It examines the varying approaches that have been used to
understand and intervene in cultural representations of gender, including the
demand for positive images of women, the production of feminist art and films,
the re-valuing of ‘women’s genres’, the parody of traditional forms, and the
appropriation of popular culture.
Staff: Dr B Baird
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial weekly
Assess: 2-hr exam (40%), written work (50%), tutorial participation (10%)
Required texts, etc:
A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended reading:
van Zoonen L, Feminist Media Studies, ISBN 0803985541
Hall S (ed), Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, ISBN
0761954325
Langton M, ‘Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw in on the television...’, ISBN
0642191794
Salaman N (ed), What She Wants: Women Artists Look at Men, ISBN 0860916561
Hamer D and Budge B (eds), The Good, The Bad and The Gorgeous: Popular
Culture’s Romance with Lesbianism, ISBN0044409109
Dyer R, The Matter of Images, ISBN 0415057191
Courses: R3A
Sexualities: Histories, Representation, Politics
Enrolment code: HAF202/302
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Investigates various ways in which sexuality is both a
distinct part of our experience and our world, and also always in interaction
with other aspects of cultural and social life like gender, class, age, race and
nation. The unit emphasises thinking critically about the ways in which
sexuality is represented in a variety of settings, the power relations produced
through discourses of sexuality, and the ways in which sexuality is lived by
diverse people, drawing primarily on the Australian context. The unit draws on
approaches from the history of sexuality, cultural studies, and feminist, gay and
lesbian, and queer scholarship about sexuality.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr seminar, weekly; 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Assess: 1,000-word review essay (15%), 2,500-word essay (35%), tutorial
participation (10%), exam (40%)
Required texts, etc:
A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended reading:
Foucault M, The History of Sexuality, ISBN 0713910941
Abelove H, Barale MA and Halperin D (eds), The Lesbian and Gay Studies
Reader ISBN 0415905192
Jagose A, Queer Theory ISBN 0814742343
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Connell RW and Dowsett GW, Rethinking Sex: Social Theory and Sexuality
Research ISBN 0522844871
Katz JN, The Invention of Heterosexuality, ISBN 0525938451
Matthews JJ (ed), Sex in Public, ISBN 1864480491
Marr D, The High Price of Heaven, ISBN 1865082015
Lancaster RN and diLeonardo M, The Gender Sexuality Reader, ISBN 0415910056
Albury R, The Politics of Reproduction, ISBN 1864489065
Majors: Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Themes, Issues
and Conflicts
Enrolment code: HAF215/315
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Special note: compulsory unit for Women’s Studies major
Unit description: Provides an introduction to themes, issues and conflicts in
contemporary feminist thought. Particular attention is paid to the shift from the
unifying themes in earlier feminist theorising to the destabilising influences of
recent social theory upon feminism. The conflicts within feminism to be
addressed centre around debates about the category of ‘woman’, the politics of
difference, the basis of feminist knowledge, the conception of power, the
stability of sexed identity and the workings of the public/private divide. There
is an emphasis on applying feminist theoretical tools to contemporary debates
and events within feminism and in mainstream public life, eg the Australian
republic, the controversy over Hindmarsh Island, the Ormond College affair
and the book The First Stone, media coverage of Amelie Mauresmo at the 1999
Australian Tennis Open.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1 lecture, 1 seminar weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly
Mutual excl: HSA214/314
Assess: 2,500-word essay (35%), 1,000-word tutorial paper (15%), tutorial
participation (10%), 2-hr exam i(40%)
Required texts, etc:
A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended reading:
Mohanty CT, Russo A and Torres L (eds), Third World Women and the Politics of
Feminism, ISBN 253338735
Thornton M (ed), Public and Private: Feminist Legal Debates, ISBN 0195536622
Grosz E, Volatile Bodies, ISBN 1863734155
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Caine B and Pringle R (eds), Transitions: New Australian Feminisms, ISBN
1863737766
Nicholson LJ (ed), Feminism/Postmodernism, ISBN 041590058X
Huggins J, Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie
Huggins, ISBN 0702228400
Halberstam J, Female Masculinity, ISBN o822322439
Gamble S (ed), The Routledge Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism, ISBN
0415925185
Majors: Women’s Studies
Courses: R3A
Women’s Studies 4 (Honours)
Enrolment code: HAF400/401
Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: full-time students enrol in HAF400 (100%), part-time students in
HAF401 (50%); individual units have notional weight, but for HECS purposes
must be weighted at 0%; students should also note that all unit electives are
subject to availability of teaching staff. The core units and unit electives are set
out below
Unit description: The Women’s Studies honours program is interdisciplinary.
Because of the need to coordinate individual courses, students wishing to
undertake the honours program must consult with the Coordinator of Women’s
Studies at the end of 3rd year or the beginning of 4th year. Students who meet
the Faculty requirement for entry to Honours and who have a major in
Women’s Studies are eligible for admission to Honours, subject tot he approval
of the Coordinator of Women’s Studies. Students who do not have a major in
Women’s Studies may seek special admission through the Coordinator of
Women’s Studies. The course consists of three components. 1. HAF405
Women’s Studies: Contexts, Conflicts, Crisis? 2. A dissertation (HAF406) of
10,000–12,000 words on a topic approved by the Coordinator of Women’s
Studies. Supervision is provided by academic staff from participating Schools in
the Women’s Studies. The dissertation should normally be within the Faculty of
Arts. 3. Further units taught by Women’s Studies specialists in participating
Schools of the Women’s Studies program totalling no more than 40% (notional
weight) of the course. Other units taught in the Honours programs of other
schools may also be suitable. These units are subject to approval by the
Coordinator of Women’s Studies and by the Schools concerned. Students
should consult the listings of honours units in participating schools for
information about suitable options.
Staff: Dr B Baird (Coordinator)
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Unit weight: 100%/50%
Prereq: Faculty requirement for entry to Honours, a major in Women’s Studies
and approval of the Coordinator of Women’s Studies.
Courses: R4A
Women’s Studies: Contexts, Conflicts, Crisis?
Enrolment code: HAF405
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Special note: notional weight 20%
Unit description: Expands the themes and issues in feminist thought raised in
the unit HAF215/315 Contemporary Feminist Thought. The unit applies these
discussions specifically to the context of Women’s Studies in the academy and
to students’ proposed areas of specialist research. This unit employs recent
feminist work that uses psychoanalytic discourse, postmodern thought,
postcolonial discourse and/or queer theory to pose new questions and new
directions in Women’s Studies.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 0%
Teaching: 2-hr seminar weekly
Prereq: HAF215/315
Assess: written work totalling 7,000 words
Required texts, etc:
Butler J, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. ISBN
0415900425
Mohanty CT, Russo A and Torres L (eds), Third World Women and the Politics of
Feminism, ISBN 253338735
Cossman B et al (eds), Bad Attitudes on Trial, ISBN 0802076432
Lather P and Smithies C, Troubling the Angels: Women Living with
HIV/AIDS, ISBN 0813390168
Torgovnick M, Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives, ISBN 226808327
Courses: R4A
Honours Dissertation
Enrolment code: HAF406
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: notional weight 40%; compulsory unit
Unit description: A dissertation of 10,000–12,000 words on a topic approved
by the Coordinator of Women’s Studies is supervised by academic staff from
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participating Schools in the Women’s Studies program. The dissertation should
normally be within the Faculty of Arts.
Staff: Dr B Baird (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 0%
Courses: R4A