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GOVT6138: Gender, Family and the State
2025 unit information
Adopting a comparative politics perspective, this unit of study explores the relationship between gender and family roles to state development, particularly in the aspects of political participation, human rights, and the transformation/revolution of state forms. The unit will also focus particularly on the impact of two higher order social institutions: religion and the state, and examine how both have influenced women and the family in both capitalist and socialist states.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Government and International Relations |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate a broad-based competency of the main theoretical and conceptual frameworks used to understand gender politics and its impact on modern life
- LO2. demonstrate understanding of institutional contexts for gender and family in various societies
- LO3. demonstrate awareness of the highly complex relationships between gender, family and the state and other domains such as religion, economic development, and modernisation
- LO4. properly choose adequate tools and methodologies to acquire and evaluate new knowledge of gender politics
- LO5. demonstrate the capacity to adopt and apply academic good practice
- LO6. identify, define, investigate, and solve research puzzles
- LO7. think independently, analytically, and originally within strict research discipline
- LO8. demonstrate elevated awareness and understanding of contemporary social, cultural and political diversity in the world.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
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