2005 Handbooks

Gender Issues in the Contemporary Context offers an introductory look at Women's Studies and Gender Studies at Macquarie University. Lecturers from departments throughout Macquarie contribute to this interdisciplinary unit: from Anthropology, Critical and Cultural Studies, Education, History (Ancient and Modern), Human Geography, Law, Media, Philosophy and Politics, as well as from the Institute for Women's Studies itself. Lecturers focus on a particular aspect of the study of gender in their own discipline. Topics covered include differences between first, second and third wave feminisms; the politics of the body and appearance; the legal regulation of transgender people; psychological and philosophical meanings of oppression; contemporary forms of masculinity and queer theory; cultural analyses of misogyny and rape; female genital mutilation; war and peace: representations of gender in first world war propaganda and in more recent conflicts; gender relations in ancient Athens; gender, space and the lure of suburbia, recent conflicts and exchanges between aboriginal women and white feminists, and more.