Gender, and how we live it, has far-reaching implications for our lives.

 

It shapes the work we do and how we spend our leisure time, our income, our family relationships and friendships, the value and meanings we attach to other people and activities, what we eat and how we dress, and even how we speak and move.

 

In the past few decades, theoretical and everyday notions of gender have undergone dramatic changes, influenced by changes in the organisation of society and by a rapidly expanding field of critical inquiry.

 

This major is available for the Bachelor of Arts (BA).

 

Social and cultural changes in gender are among the most dramatic changes affecting the lives of individuals over recent decades. Our society is still in the midst of a major transition in how we organise our work, our play, our homes, our relationships and sexualities, and our families. These changes affect men as well as women, and they affect both sexes positively and negatively.

 

Gender Studies enables us to understand why, and in what ways, we are so different from our parents' and grandparents' generations - and to understand the effects of this 'quiet revolution' we are living through. 

 

Gender and Women's Studies combines well with any subject that deals with people and society.

 

Graduates work in social and cultural policy development and analysis, education, the media, professional arts, EEO, human rights, health professions, management, health and community advocacy, social and family work, church and pastoral work, and organisations such as Rape Crisis and Women's Refuge.

 

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Email: anthropology@otago.ac.nz

 

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Department of Anthropology, Gender & Sociology

2nd floor, Richardson Building

University of Otago 

PO Box 56, Dunedin