MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ASM5120

Sexual/social theory and feminist research: critical exchanges B

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

Synopsis This subject follows the same general approach as `Sexual/social theory A'. Topics to be covered will include feminist critiques of western masculine/ist approaches to knowledge and the epistemological bases of feminist theory and research; theories of power, feminist politics and strategies of resistance and change in modernist and postmodernist theories; the relationships between sex, gender, race, class and culture in comparative sociological and anthropological analyses.

Assessment (8 points) One exercise (2000 words): 33% + Essay (4000 words): 67%

Assessment (12 points) Two exercises (2000 words each): 20% each + Essay (5000 words): 60%

Recommended texts

• Barrett M and Phillips A (eds) Destabilising theory Polity, 1992
• Butler J and Scott J (eds) Feminists theorise the political Routledge, 1992
• Fraser N Unruly practices: Power, discourse and gender in contemporary social theory Polity, 1989
• Harding S Whose science? Whose knowledge? Cornell U P, 1991
• Harding S The science question in feminism Open University, 1986
• Hooks B Yearning: Race, gender and cultural politics Southend Press, 1990
• Mohanty C and others (eds) Third world women and the politics of feminism Indiana U P, 1991
• Stanley L (ed.) Feminist praxis Routledge, 1990