Women's and Gender Studies

Description

Raise your awareness of past and present feminism and gender issues and examine how they influence racism, sexism and other discriminatory actions.

What You'll Study

In Women’s and Gender Studies you will gain an understanding of the social constructions of gender (femininity and masculinity) and sexualities, contemporary feminist schools of thought, ‘race’, class and other markers of identity intersecting with gender, and women’s rights, issues and activism and developments in feminist theory, scholarly methodology and ethics.



Women's and Gender Studies can be studied as 

Specialisation Stream Type Stream
History Minor HISTA23403
Women's and Gender Studies Minor WOMSA23403
   

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