MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

Women and social control

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

A R Edwards

Synopsis Social control is a useful concept for the analysis of power and regulation of social life by key institutions in society and has been used by a number of sociological perspectives (including deviancy theory and Marxism) and by feminist theorists. The focus here is on the mechanisms and processes of social control over women and gender relations. The main institutions examined are the state, welfare, the law and criminal justice, medicine and psychiatry.

Assessment Paper (1000 words): 15% + Paper (1500 words): 20% + Essay (3500 words): 65%

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