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AN2014:03

Gender, Body and Culture

[Offered in even-numbered years, however not offered in 2004]

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 2.

Staff:

Dr R Henry (Townsville campus);

Dr M Fuary (Cairns campus).

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 tutorial participation and presentation (20%); class test (30%); major essay (50%).