HAF Unit Details as at 13th June, 2002
Gender and Society
Enrolment code: HAF101
Offered: Hobart: semester 1
Explores the workings of gender and power in Australia by examining the gendered
nature of the institutions and experience of education, government, work, violence, 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 pattern 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 2-hr exam (40%), 750-word short essay (15%), 1,500-word long essay
(35%), tutorial participation (10%)
Required texts etc
A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended texts etc
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
Majors HAF
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
The Representation of Gender
Enrolment code: HAF102
Offered: Hobart: semester 2
Explores the ways in which gender is represented across a variety of genres, with an
emphasis on popular culture – television, film, advertisements, magazines, newspapers,
etc. 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
Unit weight 12.5%
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Teaching pattern 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 2-hr exam (40%), 750-word short essay (15%), 1,500-word long essay
(35%), tutorial participation (10%)
Required texts etc
A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended texts etc
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
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
Majors HAF
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Sexualities: Histories, Representation, Politics
Enrolment code: HAF202 or HAF302
Offered: not offered in 2002
Special note: alternating unit, offered in odd-numbered years
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.
Staff Dr B Baird
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 1-hr lecture, 1-hr seminar, weekly; 1-hr tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,500-word essay (35%), tutorial participation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
A Unit Reader with all seminar and tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended texts etc
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 HAF
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Themes, Issues
and Conflicts
Enrolment code: HAF215 or HAF315
Offered: Hobart: semester 1
Special note: compulsory unit for Women’s Studies major
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 body, 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 media coverage of
French lesbian player Amelie Mauresmo at the 1999 Australian Tennis Open; political and
media treatment of Aboriginal women leaders; the federal government’s attempt in
2001-2001 to amend the <zf>http://SCALEplus.law.gov.au/<fz>Sex Discrimination Act,
and others.
Staff Dr B Baird
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 1-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly, 1-hr seminar fortnightly (13 wks)
Mutual exclusions HSA214/314
Assessment mode 2,500-word essay (35%), 1,000-word tutorial paper (15%), tutorial
participation (10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommended texts etc
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
Gamble S (ed), The Routledge Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism, ISBN 0415925185
Majors HAF
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Women’s Studies 4 (Honours)
Full time/Part time
Enrolment code: HAF400 or HAF401
Offered: Hobart: semesters 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 unit is
described below.
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 to the
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. Women’s Studies: Contexts, Conflicts, Crisis?
A two hour weekly seminar in semester 1, guided by the Women’s Studies Coordinator. It
has a notional weight of 20%. Assessment is by written work of 7,000 words.
This component 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. It focuses on three recent books chosen from the list below as a way of
raising a range of issues and demonstrating different thoeretical, methodological and
structural approaches and different styles of writing. The component looks at challenges to
traditional approaches to research, particularly, but not only, feminist research, which
have been made by more recent theoretical and methodological developments. It draws on
work to illustrate indigenous, post-modern, post-structuralist and anti-capitalist
feminisms and/or queer theory.
2. A dissertation 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.
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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)
Unit weight 100%/50%
Prerequisites Faculty requirement for entry to Honours, a major in Women’s Studies and
approval of the Coordinator of Women’s Studies.
Required texts etc
Three of the following to be chosen in consultation with students:
Moreton-Robinson A, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and White
Feminism, ISBN 0702231347
Lather PA, Smithies C, Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS, ISBN
0813390168
Cossman B, Bell S, Gotell L, Ross B, Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the
Butler Decision, ISBN 0802076432
Halberstam J, Female Masculinity, ISBN 0822322439
Reekie G, Measuring Immorality: Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy, ISBN
0521629748
Gibson-Graham JK, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political
Economy, ISBN 1557868638
Courses [R4A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
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