The Honors Specialization in Global Gender Studies allows students to examine how processes of globalization, formations of global culture, and practices and problems of global development are organised by and are organising of gendered divisions and identities. Students investigate how gender is established and experienced, on world-wide scales, in terms of differences, inequalities, privilege, violence, and relations of power. And they study ways in which current gendered relations between persons, on political, social, cultural, and economic registers, may be thoughtfully interrogated, critically analysed, and constructively challenged.
This program is formed through a unique partnership between Huron’s Centre for Global Studies and Western’s Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, and it is comprised from a set of courses drawn equally from both. In this program of study, students learn to recognise gender and gendering as a set of problems in the world; they study theories of gender and approaches to developing a focus on gender in their analyses of human interrelations; and they develop considerable depth of study into specific problems of gender in contemporary global dynamics.
Students elaborate on this core focus by complicating the study of gender, in the contexts of globalization, global culture, and global development, with interrelated investigations into women’s studies, sexuality, queer studies, feminism, and studies in masculinity. Students should expect to explore these themes and approaches to research and analysis in terms of such topics as: global health; intersections of race, class, and sexuality; cultural resistance; poverty; law and social change; transnational social movements; humanitarian interventions; divisions of labour and capitalism; human rights politics; and nationalisms, ethnicities, and family structures.
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