2007 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 Asian Languages, 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 abortion; psychological and philosophical meanings of oppression; contemporary forms of masculinity; cultural analyses of misogyny and rape; female genital mutilation; war and peace: representations of gender in first world war propaganda and in more recent war discourse; gender relations in ancient Athens; recent conflicts and exchanges between aboriginal women and white feminists, and more.