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Explores the ways in which power works to shape gender by examining the gendered nature of the institutions and experience of education, government, work, violence, law and other areas of life using a range of disciplinary perspectives. The unit stresses the ways in which we negotiate gender, albeit within the limits of history and place, and includes focus on organised movements for change. This is done against a background of the history of developments in feminism and Women`s/Gender Studies over the last thirty years. Attention is paid to contemporary gender issues in Australia and their global context.
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