Melbourne Graduate School of Education Breadth Subjects

Youth, citizenship and identity

arrowYear Level 3: Ethics, gender and the family

Towards the end of the 20th century, feminist thinkers challenged the view that the family is a private domain. Examine the growing tradition of using alternative perspectives, such as gender and childhood studies, to understand the family as a site of contestation over the rights and responsibilities of its members.

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