Gender and Global Health explores and explains theoretical, empirical and applied approaches to and perspectives on gender and global health. It adopts a critical approach to gender and aims to train you to understand how gender identities determine our health and wellbeing on a local and global level. The module will illustrate and discuss current global debates and issues in gender and health, and provide you with a strong theoretical basis from which to conduct gender transformational research and interventions on global health.

By taking this module, you will:

Acquire the knowledge to understand the relationships between gender structures, identities and health and what impact these may have on the design and delivery of health interventions.
	Learn how to articulate and apply a range of gender theories and to critically discuss commonly used terms and paradigms.
	Develop the ability to de-naturalize gender structures, identities and problems, and explain more subtle forms of gender inequality.
	Understand and articulate a gender transformative approach to gender and health.
	The module is open to students on the MSc/PG Dip Global Health and Development, other UCL MSc/PG Dip students, Taster course students and Short course students.
Lectures will cover key theoretical issues and debates that concern gender and global health such as policy, social structures, categories, gender violence and reproductive health. You will be expected to read two essential readings for each lecture and to participate in the tutorial activities. Essential readings and supplementary material for the lectures and seminars will be available on Moodle.

Selected reading list:

Boesten J, Wilding P. (2015). Transformative gender justice: setting an agenda. Women's Studies International Forum. 51: 75-80.
	Connell, Raewyn. (2012). Gender, health and theory: Conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective. Social Science and Medicine 16 (7): 1675-1683.
	Clarke A, Haraway, D. (2018). Making kin not population. Prickly paradigm press. University of Chicago.
	Connell, Raewyn (2015). Meeting at the edge of fear: theory on a world scale. Feminist theory 16 (1): 49-66
	Gaard, G. (2011). Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism. Feminist Formations. 23(2): 26-53
	Hawkes, Sarah and Kent Buse. 2013. Gender and global health: evidence, policy and inconvenient truths. The Lancet 381:186-187
	Jaimes* Guerrero MA (2003) “Patriarchal Colonialism” and indigenism: implications for native feminist spirituality and native womanism. Hypatia 18(2): 58-69
	Lugones, Maria. (2007) Coloniality of Gender. Worlds and knowledges otherwise. Spring 2008.
	Mies, Maria. (1986) 'Colonization and housewifization' in "Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale" (chapter 3). Zed Books.
	Petchesky, Rosalind P. (2009) “The Language of ‘Sexual Minorities’ and the Politics of Identity: A Position Paper.” Reproduction Health Matters17(33): 105-110
	Risman, Barbara. (2004) Gender as a social structure. Theory wrestling with activism. Gender and Society 18 (4):429-450
	West, Candace and Don H Zimmerman. (1987) Doing Gender. Gender and Society 1(2):125:151
	Ridgeway, Cecilia and Shelley J Correll. (2004) Unpacking the Gender system. A theoretical perspective on gender beliefs and social relations. Gender and Society 18 (4).