AN2014:04
*NOTE* Gender, Body and Culture
Townsville
HECS Band 1
26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 2.
Staff: Dr R Henry.
The subject focuses on the centrality of ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in anthropology, both for anthropologists themselves as practitioners as well as for the subjects/objects of the anthropological gaze. Gender as an analytical category and as lived experience is explored.
Learning Objectives:
- be able to understand the essential role played by gender in all human societies;
- come to critically view the multiple ways in which gender is elaborated in a variety of social and cultural contexts;
- demonstrate a critical ability to understand and engage in on-going theoretical debates about gender and the body;
- see gender as a construct that anthropologists study, as well as a construct within which anthropologists themselves operate;
- appreciate the diversity of theoretical approaches to the anthropological study of gender and the body;
- become very familiar with how gender as a social construct intersects with other forms and structures of social differentiation.
Assessment by review of an ethnography/journal/autobiography (2,000 words) (30%); essay (2,000-3,000 words) (40%); seminar presentation (15%); seminar participation (15%).