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Crawford School of Public Policy · ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy
This course is available for on-campus & remote (online) learning. All students participate in interactive, real-time classes. This course is meant for students who are interested in developing an advanced understanding of the elements of the scholarly debates and theories in Gender and Development (GAD), as well as in learning the analytical tools of GAD practice. It trains students to use analytical skills and approaches to mainstreaming gender in development through a balance of feminist theories and gender analytical frameworks that are relevant to the practitioners of development. The approach is critical, hands-on, and inclusive. A key question that the course addresses throughout is that despite the sophistication of scholarly understanding of gender and inequality, why it is still difficult to fully address feminist issues in development projects and programs.
Online group wiki – evaluating gender inclusion in a development project (1000wds)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 5
Class presentation of final essay
Learning outcomes 1, 4, 5
Final Essay Project (3,000 words)
Learning outcomes 3, 4, 5
Deep engagement with the course through regular class participation
Learning outcomes 1, 4, 5
A standard workload for a 6 unit course is 130 hours including class time and independent study.
Readings will be provided on the Wattle course site. Preliminary Reading Cornwall, Andrea, and Althea-Maria Rivas. 2015. "From 'gender equality and 'women's empowerment' to global justice: reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development." Third World Quarterly 36 (2):396-415. England, Paula. 2010. "The gender revolution: Uneven and stalled." Gender & society 24 (2):149-166. Eerdewijk, Anouka, and Tine Davids. 2014. "Escaping the mythical beast: gender mainstreaming reconceptualised." Journal of International Development 26 (3):303-316. Okali, Christine. 2012. Gender analysis: engaging with rural development and agricultural policy processes. In Working Paper 026: Future Agricultures. Staronova, Katarina, Eva Hejzlarova, and Kristýna Hondlíková. 2017. "Making Regulatory Impact Assessment Gender Sensitive: The Case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia." Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (51):89-105. doi: 10.24193/tras.51E.6. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy, and Deborah Piatelli. 2012. The Synergistic Practice of Theory and Method. In Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. California: SAGE Publications, Inc. Bilge, Sirma. 2010. "Recent feminist outlooks on intersectionality." Diogenes 57 (1):58-72. Gunnarsson, Lena. 2011. "A defence of the category ‘women’." Feminist Theory 12 (1):23-37. Covarrubias, Katia, Benjamin Davis, and Paul Winters. 2012. "From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme." Journal of Development Effectiveness 4 (1):50-77. Jewkes, Rachel, Michael Flood, and James Lang. 2015. "From work with men and boys to changes of social norms and reduction of inequities in gender relations: a conceptual shift in prevention of violence against women and girls." The Lancet 385 (9977):1580-1589.