Gender and Gender Structures: Changes and Stability in Institutions, Policies and Practices

About this programme

The purpose of the course is to point to theoretical and empirical tools to assess the continuities and discontinuities in gender relations in advanced industrialized societies. The course aims to extend the knowledge base of gender in the social sciences, building upon research that recognizes gender as a dynamic and contested research terrain across different sites and within diverse groups. How are gender relations being transformed by changing policies and discourses on gender equality and gender equity? To what extent are these changes producing differences among groups of individuals by age, ethnicity, religion, class and sexualities? These are issues that will be discussed in class, referencing theoretical and empirical tools to assess the continuities and discontinuities in gender relations in advanced industrialized societies. The course includes a range of lecturers with different expertise in different spheres of gender: work, family, politics, sexualities, and ethnic/gender tensions. Course meetings are divided in two parts, combining a lecture by the invited lecturer with a discussion of the literature. To follow your passion. To be close to international career opportunities. To explore city and countryside. In Stockholm you can really get the best of both worlds. Here we explain all the different steps you need to go through when applying to a course or programme. Stockholm University arranges regular webinars and participates in educational fairs and events virtually and around the world to meet students and inform them about our study programmes.