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HIST218 Women in Australian History

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in Australian Studies, History or Gender Studies
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent of lectures and tutorials.

This unit involves the study of the establishment of a broad historical sense of the changing experience and status of women in Aboriginal Australia before European settlement, and through colonial and modern times in a variety of cultural and ethnic contexts. It builds a sense of women's experience in both Aboriginal and white Australia. Specific case studies in different cultural, social, economic and other settings in Australia are used, and students will draw together a comparative feminist critique from these specific case studies. The unit also explores issues of historical sources approaches, including oral history and ways of interpretation.

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