Women's sociology
BT BW AW BB BS DT GA PA BC BP BDT BJ BY
Marion Collis
Subject value of 1.0 (6 points) * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GSC1201, GSC1202 or equivalents
Students will be introduced to feminist critiques of traditional sociological perspectives, their theoretical and conceptual frameworks and methods of inquiry, and to alternative feminist approaches to both theory and research. A feminist perspective will then be applied to a number of themes and issues currently of importance in the lives of Australian women. Topics include women's interactions with some of the dominant institutions of our society: the state social security and social welfare systems, the criminal justice system, the Church, medicine and medical technology, psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Assessment
Assignment one (1500 words): 30% * Assignment two (1500 words): 30% * Assignment three (2000 words): 40%
Prescribed texts
Roberts H (ed.) Doing feminist research RKP, 1981
Sydie R Natural women cultured men: A feminist perspective on sociological theory Open UP, 1987