This course explores episodes in which categories of gender, race and sexuality interacted and shifted through colonial encounters. We will consider episodes in various parts of the globe (Africa, India, Australia and Vietnam) and at different time periods, in which encounters between expanding imperial cultures and indigenous cultures combined to produce societies with racial and gender hierarchies, and in which gender and sexuality were sites of colonial anxiety, regulation and exploitation. Recent scholarship has shown how gender and race were crucial markers of colonial social order upon which governing regimes in all four sites depended.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze the ways in which hierarchies of gender, class and race have intersected historically under colonialism.
- Use specific historical examples to discuss connections among gender, sexuality and race in Africa, India, Australia and Vietnam.
- Identify, reflect on and discuss specific instances of colonial societies in which imperial rule depended on categories of gender and race.
- Locate and use primary sources as historical evidence of how colonialism worked.
- Think, write and argue about how ideas of gender and race have changed over time.
Indicative Assessment
Primary source essay 1,500 words (30%) [assesses LO 1, 2, 4 and 5]
Tutorial participation (10%) [assesses LO 2, 3 and 5]
Quiz (10%) [assesses LO 2and 3]
Research essay 3,500 words (50%) [assesses LO 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5]
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Workload
26 hours of lectures, 13 hours of tutorials. Students should expect to undertake 7 hours per week of independent study.
The course will be delivered via (streamed) lectures and face-to-face tutorials.
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
Recommended texts:
- Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel (eds.), Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance (1992);
- Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities (1994);
- Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda (eds.), Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism (1998);
- Tanya Dalziell, Settler Romances and the Australian Girl (2004);
- Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton (eds.), Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (2005).
Majors
Minors
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $2718 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $3876 |
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