Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
The Centre for Women's Studies was established in 1987 and is based in the Faculty of Arts. Its purpose is to encourage and supervise graduate research, to offer subjects in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and to organise seminars, conferences and workshops in the area of women's studies. The centre provides a focus for those interested in gender issues and feminism across the university.
The centre offers the degrees of PhD, MA by research and MA by coursework. The aim of the graduate program is to provide the opportunity for a range of links between staff and students not only between a variety of disciplines within the Faculty of Arts, but also with several vocationally oriented and professional courses offered by other faculties. The centre organises a series of regular staff and graduate seminars on topics of general concern to those engaged in feminist and women's studies. Research students are normally expected to attend these seminars. The centre also organises occasional symposia and conferences.
CHRIS ATMORE feminist poststructuralist theory, sexual violence and representation, lesbian and gay theories (Anthropology and Sociology).
SUSAN BLACKBURN women in Asia, Indonesian women's movement (Politics).
ROBYN BURNS women's health (Social and Preventive Medicine).
DENISE CUTHBERT English and American women's literature (English).
GLORIA DAVIES post-colonial theory and feminism (Asian Languages and Studies).
JOY FISHER sociology of education, feminist theory, the family (Anthropology and Sociology).
JOANNE FINKELSTEIN media images of women, fashion, cultural studies, sociology of health (Anthropology and Sociology).
ELIZABETH GAZE feminism and law (Law).
KATHERINE GIBSON anti-essentialist marxism, feminist geography and industrial restructuring (Geography and Environmental Science).
JOAN GRANT contemporary Asian fiction (Monash Asia Institute).
KAREN GREEN feminist humanism, sexuality and moral psychology (Philosophy).
ELIZABETH GROSZ psychoanalytic theory, French feminism, critical theory (Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies).
BARBARA HATLEY Indonesian women's literature and theatre (Asian Languages and Studies).
LUCY HEALEY gender and social transformation in Southeast Asia, feminist and post-colonial theory (Anthropology and Sociology).
LIZA HESLOP caring and nursing (Nursing).
SILKE HESSE German women's writing (German).
RAE LANGTON feminism, liberalism, pornography (Philosophy).
ROSE LUCAS contemporary women's literature and popular culture (Women's Studies, English).
CHRIS LLOYD feminism and psychology, sexuality, mental health, research approaches (Anthropology and Sociology).
ANNE MARSH photography, performance art, psychoanalysis (Visual Arts).
ROSS MOER Japanese industry and society (Japanese).
BRONWYN NAYLOR crime and gender (Law).
LEONIE NAUGHTON feminist film theory, German cinema (Visual Arts).
PAULINE NESTOR nineteenth and twentieth-century women's literature (English).
MARIAN QUARTLY nineteenth-century women's history (History).
KATE RIGBY German feminist theory, ecology and feminism, feminist spiriality.
GILLIAN ROBINSON feminism and political theory (Politics).
ALBA ROMANO women in Roman society (Greek Roman and Egyptian Studies).
TERRI SEDDON women and education policy (Education).
JENNY STRAUSS Australian contemporary fiction and poetry (English).
ULLA SVENSSON sociology of work, the family, the welfare state (Anthropology and Sociology).
TERRY THREADGOLD critical legal studies, performance studies, feminist pedagogy (English).
HELEN THOMSON Australian women's writing (English).
GEORGINA TSOLIDIS identity, difference, ethnicity and race in Australia (Education).
JAN VAN BOMMEL female subjectivity and madness, sexual division of labour (Anthropology and Sociology).
ANNETTE VAN DEN BOSCH feminism, politics and contemporary art (Visual Arts).
JOANNE WINTER language, gender and discourse analysis (Linguistics).
The MA by research in women's studies may also be completed by research plus coursework. Candidates with a pass degree are eligible for admission into the MA Part I by coursework. Students are required to complete subjects in Part I totalling forty-eight points value, and to attain a credit standard in all subjects before proceeding to Part II. Candidates with an honours degree with H1 or H2A honours or the equivalent can enter at Part II of the MA program. In Part II students are required to undertake a 66 per cent thesis and subjects totalling sixteen points value.
The word length of the 66 per cent thesis is approximately 25-35,000 words. The thesis topic will be of an interdisciplinary nature in the area of women's studies, chosen in close consultation with the supervisor(s). The thesis is to be submitted by 31 January of the year following enrolment (for full-time students).
Students with a pass degree are required to complete subjects in Part I and Part II totalling ninety-six points value, whereas students with an honours degree with first or second class honours or the equivalent may be admitted to Part II of the MA program and are required to complete subjects totalling forty-eight points value.
+ WSM44910 Feminist theory
+ WSM44920 Feminist research (Proposed to be offered next in 1997)
and a selection of two from the following options. The combined value of the Part I program must total forty-eight points.
+ WSM4060 Women, gender and society
+ WSM4070 Women, psychiatry and madness
+ WSM4330 Sociology of the family
+ WSM4630 Feminism crossculturally
+ WSM4640 Bodily representations
+ WSM4651 The unconscious in social life: psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives.
+ Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
+ WSM4160 Contemporary issues in feminist theory
+ WSM4750 Deconstruction and feminism
+ WSM4780 Women's writing in Latin America today
+ GED2805 Gender in education
+ WSM4270 Feminist poetics
+ WSM4670 Gender representation in classical literature
+ WSM4990 Film theory and film criticism II
Part II for research degree students will consist of two eight-point subjects, including:
+ WSM5010 Feminist theory (if not already completed)
+ other options from the list below
+ a 66 per cent thesis (equivalent in value to thirty-two points).
+ WSM5040 Gender issues (Proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ WSM5290 Reading Irigaray (Proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ WSM5750 Deconstruction and feminism