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SY2022 - Family, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Society
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2012 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
1 |
Administered by: |
School of Arts & Social Sciences |
Family life, gender relations and sexual orientations have been significant sites
of concern, activism and contestation over recent decades in Australia and other advanced
societies. For some, a greater diversity of family forms, changing relations between
women and men and an increased tolerance of minority sexual orientations have been
signs of socio-cultural enlightenment. For others, the decline of the family, the
erosion of traditional gender roles and sexual permissiveness have been at the forefront
of a more general unravelling of socio-cultural order. The subject places these differing
perspectives in a sociological context as the nature and scope of changes to family
life, gender relations and attitudes to sexuality in Australia from the 1960s to the
present are examined. Particular attention is paid to three issues. Firstly, differences
of practice and attitude in relation to family, gender and sexuality are related to
other principles of difference such as class, ethnicity and urbanity-rurality. Secondly,
contests about what is appropriate in relation to family, gender and sexuality are
linked to shifting and intersecting patterns of visual and textual representation.
Thirdly, an attempt is made to trace the main lines of division and main sites of
conflict in the cultural politics of family, gender and sexuality in contemporary
society.
Learning Outcomes
- identify the major changes to family life, gender relations and sexuality that have
taken place in Australia since the 1960s;
- relate the cultural politics of family, gender and sexuality to broader patterns of
similarity and difference in contemporary Australia;
- understand and use the sociological concepts and arguments that help to explain those
changes.
Assumed Knowledge:
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To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points
(four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level
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Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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AN2111 AN3111 SY3022 |
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