Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary subject concerned with women’s lives, their status in society, the nature of contemporary gender relations, and the social construction of ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’. Women’s and Gender Studies at Waikato offers papers that explore a wide range of topics relevant to women, men and society as a whole. These include media representations of women and men, gender and the body, the division of paid and unpaid work, love, marriage and the family, health issues such as eating disorders and new reproductive technologies, sexuality, violence against women, and difference and ethnicity.

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