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ANTH2623: Genders and Sexualities
2025 unit information
This unit explores anthropological approaches to genders, gender relations and sexualities in different cultural settings across the world. Students will gain insights into the ethnographically informed analysis of local and global practices and ideas that reproduce but can also challenge, dominant views of genders and forms of sexuality, and how such views are implicated in structures of inequality that fundamentally shape people's everyday lives and experiences. In the process, we will turn our reflexive eyes on the discipline of anthropology itself, and critically examine the patriarchal and cisheteronormative biases in the practices of knowledge production.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the breadth and significance of the ethnographic record pertaining to gender and sexuality.
- LO2. understand anthropological writings on sexuality and gender in the context of how these have been debated in the discipline.
- LO3. reflexively engage with the implications of cultural difference in the study of gender and sexuality
- LO4. work collaboratively in small groups to improve each other’s learning experiences
- LO5. use ethnographic observations to appraise and critique anthropological practices, cannons, and theories of gender and sexuality.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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