Detailed Assessment Guidelines explaining the requirements for each assignment are available on the GEND820 iLearn page in the Assessment Resources section. It is necessary to have read these guidelines in order to successfully complete each task.

The formal written assessments (Summaries & Essay) are to be submitted electronically through Turnitin on the GEND820 iLearn page. 

Discussion posts should be submitted on the GEN210 iLearn page.

Essay extensions of less than one week should be requested through the convenor. Longer extensions should again be first requested through the convenor but additionally through Disruption to Studies. Approved extensions will not incur a late penalty.

The late submission of essays (without approved extensions) will be accepted but will incur a penalty of 3% on the first day and 1% per weekday thereafter. 

Delivery:

Online (iLearn)

GEND820 will use the weekly lecture material delivered within GEN210 Reading Gender in Everyday Life as the underlying pedagogical framework for its own discussion. Graduate Certificate students will have access to both the GEND820 and the GEN210 iLearn sites to enable engagement with a larger Gender Studies student cohort. Online forum participation for GEND820 students formally begins in Week Two.

Lectures commence in Week One (Monday 2-4pm) and the Echo recordings are made available shortly afterwards through the GEN210 iLearn site.  

Technologies used and required

This unit has an online presence in iLearn (http://ilearn.mq.edu.au).  Students are required to have regular access to a computer and reliable broadband internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.

Required Readings

GEN210/GEND820 required readings can be accessed through hyperlinks on iLearn or via MQ Library by searching the Unit Readings. These can be read online, printed out by the student and/or downloaded. GEND820 students will also have a brief recommended list of advanced readings provided to them, with the expectation that they will actively generate a more developed and comprehensive reference list in keeping with their individual interests and capacities as graduate students within the discipline. 

Week 1

Hines, Melissa, 2003. “Engendering the Brain” In her book Brain gender. Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press.

Hasinoff, Amy Adele (2009). ‘It’s sociobiology, hon! Genetic gender determinism in Cosmopolitan Magazine.’ Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 9, Number 3, Sept., pp. 267-283(17)

Week 2

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer (2009) ‘Grandmothers among Others’ in Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. Harvard Uni Press

Laqueur, Thomas (1990) ‘Of Language and the Flesh’ in Making sex: body and gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Uni Press

Week 3

Poole, Marilyn (2000) ‘Socialisation’ in Sociology: Australian connections. eds Ray Jureidini and Marilyn Poole. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin

Goffman, Erving (1979) ‘Gender Display’ in his Gender Advertisements. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press

Week 4

Ebert, Norbert (2012) ‘Socialisation: A Continuous State of Becoming?’ in Individualisation at work: the self between freedom and social pathologies. Burlington, VT: Ashgate

Camhi, Leslie (1993) ‘Stealing Femininity: Department Store Kleptomania as Sexual Disorder.’ Differences vol. 5, no. 1

Week 5

Kingston, Anne (2005) Ch. 1. “The wife gap” from her The meaning of Wife. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 

Boden, Sharon (2007) ‘Consuming pleasure on the wedding day: the lived experience of being a bride.’ in Gender and consumption: domestic cultures and the commercialisation of Everyday Life, eds. E. Casey and L. Martens. Ashgate

Week 6

Rand, Erica (1995) “Older Heads on Younger Bodies”, Ch. 2 in her Barbie’s Queer Accessories. Durham and London, Duke University Press

Rogers, Mary F (1999) “Plastic Selves” in Barbie culture. London, Sage Publications

Week 7

Moi, Toril (1982) 'Jealousy and Sexual Difference,' Feminist Review, 11, pp53-69

Yates, Candida (2000) 'Masculinity and Good Enough Jealousy,' Psychoanalytic Studies, Vol. 2, No.1

Week 8

Heyes, Cressida J. "All Cosmetic Surgery is Ethnic: Asian Eyelids, Feminist Indignation, and the Politics of Whiteness." In Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer. eds Heyes, Cressida J. and Jones, Meredith. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. 2009

Haiken, Elizabeth (1997) “Consumer Culture and the Inferiority Complex” in Venus envy: a history of cosmetic surgery. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP

Week 9

Germon, Jennifer (2009) ‘Dangerous desires: intersex as subjectivity in her Gender: a genealogy of an idea. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan

Mak, Geertje (2012) ‘Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self’ in Doubting sex: inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press

Week 10

Bordo, Susan (2004) 'The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity' in her Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. University of California Press

Haber, Honi Fern (1996) 'Foucault Pumped: Body Politics and the Muscled Woman' in Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault, ed. Susan J Hekman. University Park, Pa., Pennsylvania State University Press

Week 11

Peiss, Kathy. (1996 ) “Making Up, Making Over: Cosmetics, Consumer Culture, and Women's Identity” in The sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspective, edited by Victoria de Grazia. Berkeley, Uni. of California Press,

Riviere, Joan.(1929/1986) “Womanliness as a Masquerade”, in Formations of Fantasy, eds. Victor Burgin, James Donald, Cora Kaplan, Methuen

Butler, Judith (1990) ‘Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions’ and ‘Conclusion - From Parody to Politics’ in Gender Trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge