About Gender Studies
Gender Studies offers a unique opportunity to study issues relating to gender, sex, sexuality and culture. Programs are offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The program examines how contemporary theories of gender, bodies, sex, sexuality and feminism draw on and illuminate current global politics and cultures. The program is systematically cross-cultural in its approach.
Building on feminist insights that situate gender, sex and sexuality as organizing principles for individual and collective identities and for societies, the Gender Studies program offers opportunities to analyse how gender, sex and sexuality are critical to history, culture and politics.
The Gender Studies program has an international reputation for its focus on gender, feminisms and sexualities in cross-cultural and global contexts.
Gender studies teaching and research addresses a range of issues including:
- gender, culture and sexuality
- gender, culture and identity
- gender and bodies
- contemporary feminist theory
- gender and colonialism
- gender and globalisation
- gender and nationalism
- gender, multiculturalism and secularism
- Australian, Asian, and global feminisms
- postfeminism
- motherhood, family and marriage
The program is transdisciplinary and draws on a core of subjects taught by lecturers in gender studies and a wide range of subjects available within other disciplines. These include subjects drawn from anthropology, Asian studies, Islamic Studies, Australian Indigenous studies, cultural studies, development studies, English, history, history and philosophy of science, political science, social theory and sociology.