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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 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/Gender Studies in
Australia over the last thirty years. Attention is paid to contemporary gender issues in
Australia and their global context.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assess: 2-hr exam (40%), 1,000-word short essay (15%), 1,500-word long essay (35%),
tutorial participation (10%)
Required: A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommend: 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: Gender Studies
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
The Representation of Gender
Enrolment code: HAF102
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Unit description:
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Explores the ways in which gender is represented across a variety of cultural settings, 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 introduces a range of approaches that are useful in
understanding popular representations of gender. The unit also examines the varying
approaches that have been used to 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%
Teaching pattern: 2x1-hr lectures, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assess: 2-hr exam (40%), 1,000-word short essay (15%), 1,500-word long essay (35%),
tutorial participation (10%)
Required: A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommend: 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 & 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: Gender Studies
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Sexualities: Histories, Representation, Politics
Enrolment code: HAF202/302
Offered: not offered in 2004
Special note: alternating unit, offered in odd-numbered years
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
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the history of sexuality, cultural studies, and feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer
scholarship. It makes extensive use of Australian independent film as a way of presenting
alternative representations of sexuality.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr seminar, weekly; 1-hr tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Assess: 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,500-word essay (35%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr
exam (40%)
Required: A Unit Reader with all seminar and tutorial readings will be available to
purchase
Recommend: Foucault M, The History of Sexuality, ISBN 0713910941
Abelove H, Barale MA & Halperin D (eds), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader ISBN
0415905192
Jagose A, Queer Theory ISBN 0814742343
Connell RW & 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 & diLeonardo M, The Gender Sexuality Reader, ISBN 0415910056
Albury R, The Politics of Reproduction, ISBN 1864489065
Majors: Gender Studies
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Gender, Sexuality and the Past
Enrolment code: HAF203/303
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Special note: alternating unit, offered in even-numbered years
Unit description:
Introduce students to critical accounts of the ways Australia’s past is represented through
ideas about gender and sexuality. The unit focuses on recent representations of/about
Australian history in oral histories, film, tv and other popular media, and in political
debates. It considers ways that representations of the past interact with and shape
personal and collective memories to form the present, with an emphasis on contests over
the past. It discusses the challenges to conventional histories posed by ‘adding in’ those
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often left out, and, further, by understanding gender and sexuality as central categories in
history. Topics to be discussed may include federation, Gallipoli, the removal of
indigenous children from their families, battles over women’s reproductive bodies,
pre-1970s homosexual sub-cultures and others.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr lecture and seminar weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly
Assess: 2-hr exam (40%), 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,500-word long essay (35%), tutorial
participation, including tutorial presentation (10%)
Required: A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available for purchase
Recommend: Darian-Smith K & Hamilton P (eds), Memory and History in Twentieth-Century
Australia, ISBN 0195535693
Thomson A & Perks R (eds), The Oral History Reader, ISBN 0415133513
Healy C, From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory, ISBN 0521562783
Majors: Gender Studies
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Contemporary Feminist Thought: Themes, Issues
and Conflicts
Enrolment code: HAF215/315
Offered: Hbt: sem 1, dist.ed: sem 1
Special note: compulsory unit for Gender Studies major
Unit description:
Provides an introduction to themes, issues and conflicts in contemporary feminist thought
in the Western world. 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 feminist engagements
with mainstream politics. There is an emphasis on applying feminist theoretical tools to
contemporary debates and events within feminism and in mainstream public life.
Staff: Dr B Baird
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: int:1-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly, 1-hr seminar fortnightly (13 wks);
dist.ed: instructional package
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M.excl: HSA214/314
Assess: 2,500-word essay (35%), 1,000-word tutorial paper (15%), tutorial participation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required: A Unit Reader with all tutorial readings will be available to purchase
Recommend: Mohanty CT, Russo A & 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
Caine B & 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
Majors: Gender Studies
Courses: [R3A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Gender Studies 4 (Honours)
Full time/Part time
Enrolment code: HAF400/401
Offered: Hbt: (fy) ie 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 unit is
described below.
Unit description:
The Gender 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 Gender 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 Gender Studies are eligible for admission to Honours, subject to the approval of
the Coordinator of Gender Studies. Students who do not have a major in Gender Studies
may seek special admission through the Coordinator of Gender Studies.
The course consists of three components.
1. HAF411 Gender Studies: Contexts, Conflicts, Crisis?
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2. HAF410 Honours Dissertation a dissertation of 15,000 words on a topic approved by the
Coordinator of Gender Studies.
3. Further units taught by Gender Studies specialists in participating Schools of the Gender
Studies program totalling no more than 25% (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 Gender 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%
Prereq: Faculty requirement for entry to Honours, a major in Gender Studies, permission of
the coordinator
Assess: 3 coursework units including the core unit (50%) and dissertation (50%)
Required: contact the Coordinator for details
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Honours Dissertation
Enrolment code: HAF410
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: notional value of unit is 50% but for HECS purposes it is weighted at 0%
Unit description:
A dissertation of 15,000 words (aproximately) on a topic approved by the Gender Studies
Coordinator supervised by academic staff of participating Schools and undertaken in
those Schools. The dissertation should normally be supervised within the Faculty of Arts.
Staff: Dr B Baird or other academic staff participating in the Gender Studies program
Unit weight: 0%
Assess: 15,000-word dissertation
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Gender Studies: Contexts, Conflicts, Crisis?
Enrolment code: HAF411
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Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: enrolment in this unit is compulsory for all Gender Studies Honours students;
notional value of unit is 25% but for HECS purposes it is weighted at 0%
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 Gender Studies in the academy and to students’ proposed areas of specialist
research. The unit is built around three recent books, as a way of raising a range of issues
and demonstrating different theoretical and methodological approaches and different
styles of writing. It looks at the challenges to traditional approaches to research,
particularly but not only, feminist research, which have been made by more recent
theoretical and methodological developments. The unit draws on work to illustrate
indigenous ‘feminisms’ and/or post-modern ferninisms and/or materialist ferninisms
and/or post-colonial theory and/or queer theory.
Staff: Dr B Baird (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 0%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr weekly seminar guided by the Gender Studies Coordinator.
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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