Seksualitet, kjønn og utviklingsmål

Presentation by the research-group Multicultural Venues in Health, Gender and Social Justice.

While the new proposed post-2015 development agenda stays firm with the Millennium Development Goal on empowering women (including girls) and achieving gender equality, girls and women are also added as one of seven cross-cutting issues. The question is, however, to what extent these global development agendas, based on a neoliberal ideology, are well suited to change more deep-seated inequalities in gender relations or in gendered dynamics underlying hegemonic femininities and masculinities?

Founded on a critical perspective on universal development goals and national targets, three presenters from the research-group Multicultural Venues in Health, Gender and Social Justice will provide three different empirically-based perspectives on sexuality and gender dynamics in specific socio-cultural contexts. Linked to the development goals global promotion of gender equality and healthy lives, these presentations address violence against women and girls in Tanzania and South Africa, HIV/Aids, circumcision and masculinities in Botswana, and underage marriages, virginity and girls’ education in Ethiopia.

PhD Candidates Annegreet Wubs and Masego Thamuku, and Dr Thera Mjaaland are all part of the research-group Multicultural Venues in Health, Gender and Social Justice at Hemil/Department of Health Promotion and Development, where Gender and Development is situated.

This is an event in the Global Semminar Series at UiB Global.

All are welcome!

The seminar will be in English.