Gender Studies
Society
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University of Auckland
Gender Studies examines the social construction of gender and how it shapes our lives, exploring how gender intersects with class, race, and other identities in numerous social contexts.
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Understand social constructions of gender
Explain how gender is constructed and maintained within different social and cultural contexts.
Analyse intersectionality
Identify and evaluate the ways gender interacts with other identities such as class, ethnicity, race, and religion.
Apply critical gender theory
Use feminist, queer, and transgender theories to assess debates and issues relating to gender and sexuality.
What You're Signing Up For
Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary subject at the University of Auckland focused on the critical investigation of gender as a social construct. The courses interrogate influences on gender in families, workplaces, schools, media, politics, and beyond, and address how gender intersects with class, ethnicity, and religion. Students study feminist, gender, queer, and transgender theory and practice, learning about key debates and issues on women, men, and LGBTQI+. There is a strong emphasis on understanding how gender and sexuality change and persist across societies, times, and communities.
Course Content
- Critical perspectives on gender in family, education, media, politics, and workplaces
- Theories and issues relating to women and femininity, men and masculinity, and LGBTQI+
- Feminist, gender, queer, and transgender theory and practice
- Social and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity
- Intersectionality of gender with class, ethnicity, colonisation, and religious identity
- Social justice issues related to gender
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Social services
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Public relations
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Teaching
Community work
Politics
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