Gender & Queer Critiques: Rethinking History & Other Studies - ARTS3900
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 24 uoc in the History or Women's and Gender Studies streams
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Women's and Gender Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: History
This seminar course acts as a ‘Capstone’ for students in the WGS minor. It is very useful to History majors as well, including those doing Education degrees; other majors with an interest in WGS also find it instructive. A central emphasis of the course is on helping students with an interest in WGS topics to prepare for honours research.
Course topics include: feminist (eg., ‘gender’) and queer challenges to History and other academic disciplines: positioned versus ‘impartial’ scholarship; writing sceptical/experimental histories; gender and life-writing; intersectional (gender, race, class etc) analysis; the 'Who can [legitimately] speak for whom?’ debate and feminist ethics in the use of oral testimonies by the ‘Other’ woman; and the multiple challenges to academic studies posed by the Linguistic Turn/poststructuralism. These include critiques of essentialism in traditional perceptions of cultural/individual identity, which in Queer Theory today extends to a critique of conventional (for eg., gay and lesbian) identity politics.