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 Gender, Race, Nature and Reason - WOMS2002
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit; Excluded: EURO2001, HIST2761, SOCA3315.
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
  

Description

Vital concepts like equality, freedom and emancipation seem inseparable from the European 'Enlightenment'. Yet the following century saw the development of a new and more subtle form of patriarchy, the increasing discrimination and exploitation of colonised peoples and minorities, and the emergence of nationalism and Fascism. Explores a range of texts in literature, philosophy and social history from the eighteenth century to the present, and seeks to analyse both the so-called 'failure(s) of enlightenment' and the impact of the two central and inter-related concepts, nature and reason, that shaped its program.

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