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GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE
PA C I F I C
PA S I 3 0 0 2 / PA S I 8 0 0 8
>> Embark on a six-day intensive
journey exploring encounters
between Oceanic and Western
experiences of gender and sexuality
> Winter Session 2015
ANU College of
Asia & the Pacific
We will revisit debates about universalism
and relativism, nature and culture,
personhood and identity, in understanding
the differences between women, men,
and transgendered persons. Combining
anthropology and history, we will witness
transformations of gender and sexuality
in the Pacific through the successive
encounters of exploratory voyages,
Christian missions, labour trade and
plantation development, World War II
and militarism, mobility and the diaspora.
Key thematic areas include women’s
influence and participation in church and
state; changing masculinities; gendered
economies, kinship and land; transnational
and regional feminisms and human rights;
gender violence; gender, sexuality, health
and HIV; and gender and sexual identities.
Contact
[email protected]
[email protected]
Wprogramsandcourses.anu.edu.
au/2015/course/PASI3002
Wprogramsandcourses.anu.edu.
au/2015/course/PASI8008
Photo: Young man being dressed by his female relatives
for Milamala Yam Festival, Trobriand Islands, Papua New
Guinea, 2003. (Katherine Lepani)