The mission of the Program on Gender and Global Change is to support student and faculty research and encourage dialogue and collaboration among scholars, policy-makers, political activists, and others working toward understanding patterns of gender dynamics in the context of changing structural and cultural practices.
GGC is an interdisciplinary program focused on comparative historical analyses of changing patterns of gender relations. Program members work within a diverse set of theoretical and methodological traditions, drawing on the contributions of feminist analyses and challenges to conventional approaches to social science. This invites attention to a breadth of interests and concerns that bridge various forms of inquiry -- including theoretical, historical, applied, and participatory action research modes of analyses.
The program seeks to deepen our understanding of how gender intersects with other dimensions of identity; how different experiences of gender shape social, economic, and intellectual change; and how gender relationships and identities themselves are reproduced and transformed in different parts of the world. Such a focus draws attention to the interface between theory and praxis and emphasizes the salience of temporal and spatial change within and between states, societies, and regions.
