GCST2608 - Gender, Communities and Belonging

Semester 1, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Adam Martin Gall
Email: adam.gall@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit examines difference and diversity within community. It looks at the operation of power and at how power produces and regulates communities and identities. It questions the assumption that community is based on the unity and similarity of citizens and examines alternatives such as difference and sociality. Specific debates about the regulation of reproduction, the production of sexuality, and the provision of welfare are examined. The unit is divided into 2 sections: Gender, Community and Difference; and Foucault, Power and Governance.

Assessments

1x500wd critical close reading task (20%), 1x1750wd essay (35%), 1x1750wd take-home exam (35%) and participation (10%)

Classes

1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

18 Junior credit points

Prohibitions

WMST2008

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