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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2024-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2026-2026
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2024-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2026-2026

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Learning outcomes

1.
Demonstrate an appreciation of the development of gendered relations in the Asian region.
2.
Recognise the complex relationships between socio-cultural value systems, ideological change and gendered issues.
3.
Critically examine complex concepts and underlying assumptions related to what it means to be a man or a woman in Asian societies.
4.
Demonstrate an awareness of changes in gendered relations brought about by economic, political and socio-cultural changes.

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Additional information

Unit content:

1 Introduction: Culture and gender in anthropological theory 2  Representations of women and men in Asian myth and religion 3 Patrilineal and matrilineal societies  4 Women and men in classless and stateless societies 5 Gender and class in traditional state societies 6 Gender experiences under colonialism and in revolution 7 Representations of women and men in modern Asian societies 8 The family and population policy: China, Indonesia, Japan 9 Socio-political transition, economic transformation & gendered labour 10 Informal sector: prostitutes,  gigolos,hawkers, domestic service 11  Gender, aid and development

Other notes:

This is a University-Wide Breadth Unit. If this unit is taken as a Core or Specified Elective unit in a student’s major or minor, it cannot also be used to satisfy the University-Wide Breadth Unit requirement.