Gender, Globalisation and Development

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

170 hours

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This subject examines the relationships between gender, globalisation and development, illustrated principally (though not exclusively) through cases from selected regions of Asia and the Pacific, and drawing on the theoretical perspectives and insights of a number of social science and humanities disciplines. On completion of the subject students should have an understanding of problems of writing about gender and difference: debates on modernity and postmodernity: gender, colonialism and postcolonialism; gender, politics, the state and civil society; masculinities, femininities and sexualities; gender and labour; gender and development agencies; gender, religion and development; gender, sexuality, rights and transnational feminisms.

Students who successfully complete this subject will have an understanding of:

• the concepts of gender and globalisation, as well as class, ethnicity, cultural diversity, feminism, colonialism, postcolonialism, modernity and neoliberalism;
• the gendered nature of the macrostructural processes of globalisation.

An assignment on 'major concepts' of 2,000 words (40%) due mid-semester, and a research essay of 3,000 words (60%) due during the examination period.

Hurdle Requirement: Students are required to attend a minimum of 75% of classes in order to qualify to have their written work assessed. Regular participation in class is required.

Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per working day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

To be advised by the subject coordinator.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• be able to show an advanced understanding of the changing knowledge base in the specialist area;
• be able to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature in the discipline;
• have an appreciation of the design, conduct and reporting of original research.