Gender, Community and Social Change

This unit explores topics and approaches to understand social and cultural transformation utilising gender analysis discourse, a community focus and ideas about social change Designed primarily for students undertaking the Gender Studies minor in Arts and the Food Technology specialisation in Education, this unit takes a global to local focus on key issues in gender equality and equity; food security and consumerism; sustainable households and communities; as well as sexualities, wellbeing, inclusion and belonging. As the interest is in change, current debates around empowerment, agency, transformation, mobilisation, collective action, engagement, and ideas of interconnection and belonging are explored. The unit explores the future of gender and community-based activism and political action in the context of new social spaces. Students are introduced to practical activist-based approaches, filtered through a gendered lens.