Tools and knowledge to work actively for change After studying Gender Studies, you will have skills that are vital in many professions. For example, you can work in global development issues, journalism and the media, or education. You can also work with gender issues at businesses and public authorities, as a gender equality consultant, expert, or as an officer for discrimination issues. It provides you with many options on the labour market. Gender Studies not only equips you for working life, but also provides a political and social education that supports participation in and action for various societal issues. Increased understanding and broadened theoretical perspectives allow you to understand and investigate the fundamentals of society. It provides perspectives on how society has changed over time and what we want it to be like in the future. After your studies, you will have developed numerous important skills. These include writing academic texts, making oral presentations, completing independent work and developing critical thinking and analysis skills. What are former students doing now? Many former students of Gender Studies have continued working with gender issues in a variety of ways. For example, some are case managers for public authorities, while others work as project managers in businesses or as investigators in politics and private organisations. Läs om ämnets forskning

Cultural and scientific understandings of the body and its significance Are you interested in studying gender studies at an advanced level, broadening and developing your perspectives on important current social issues and how gender orders are changing? This course will develop your ability to reason analytically and independently about the relationship between scientific and cultural/political understandings of the body, as regards reproductive politics and its significance for the construction of difference at the intersections between gender, ethnicity, sexuality, technology and power. The context is global, using feminist and postcolonial perspectives to examine historical and current research into the body and reproductive politics. Specific topics include: feminist and postcolonial critiques of scientific epistemologies and practices; historical and contemporary constructions of difference through biomedical practices and regulatory policies in a global perspective. You will also examine the implications of scientific development for the cultural and political construction of gender and corporeality and the resulting transformations of parenthood, normality/deviance, self-determination and citizenship. Master’s level studies require greater self-reliance than Bachelor’s level, and this course presumes in-depth knowledge of feminist and postcolonial theories. Teaching is seminar based, with introductory lectures, and the course is examined through active participation in the seminars, written assignments and peer review exercises.

An intersectional perspective on the global politics of reproduction Are you interested in studying gender studies at an advanced level, broadening and developing your perspectives on important social issues and how gender orders are changing? This course will develop your ability to reason analytically and independently about the relationship between scientific and cultural/political understandings of the body, reproductive politics and its significance for the construction of difference at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, technology and power. The context is global, and specific topics include feminist and postcolonial critiques of scientific epistemologies and practices, and historical and contemporary constructions of difference through biomedical practices and regulatory policies. You will also examine the implications of scientific development for the cultural and political construction of gender and corporeality and the resulting transformations of parenthood, normality/deviance, self-determination and citizenship. Master’s level studies require greater self-reliance than Bachelor’s level, and this course presumes in-depth knowledge of feminist and postcolonial theories. Teaching is seminar based, with introductory lectures, and the course is examined through active participation in the seminars, written assignments and peer review exercises.