Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies,concerning women,feminism,gender,and politics. The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies. Its rise to prominence,especially in Western universities after 1990,coincided with the rise of deconstruction.
Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study,while examining social and cultural constructs of gender;systems of privilege and oppression;and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race,sexual orientation,socio-economic class,and disability.
Feminist sociology is an interdisciplinary exploration of gender and power throughout society. Here,it uses conflict theory and theoretical perspectives to observe gender in its relation to power,both at the level of face-to-face interaction and reflexivity within social structures at large. Focuses include sexual orientation,race,economic status,and nationality.
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire,England. The camp began on 5 September 1981 after a Welsh group,Women for Life on Earth,arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the British government to allow cruise missiles to be stored there. After realising that the march alone was not going to get them the attention that they needed to have the missiles removed,women began to stay at Greenham to continue their protest. The first blockade of the base occurred in March 1982 with 250 women protesting,during which 34 arrests occurred.
Carol Christine Smart is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester. She has also conducted research about divorce and children of divorced couples.
Patricia McFadden is a radical African feminist,sociologist,writer,educator,and publisher from Eswatini. She is also an activist and scholar who worked in the anti-apartheid movement for more than 20 years. McFadden has worked in the African and global women’s movements as well. As a writer,she has been the target of political persecution. She has worked as editor of the Southern African Feminist Review and African Feminist Perspectives. She currently teaches,and advocates internationally for women's issues. McFadden has served as a professor at Cornell University,Spelman College,Syracuse University and Smith College in the United States. She also works as a "feminist consultant",supporting women in creating institutionally sustainable feminist spaces within Southern Africa.
Shirin M. Rai,is an interdisciplinary scholar who works across the political science and international relations boundaries. She is known for her research on the intersections between international political economy,globalisation,post-colonial governance,institutions and processes of democratisation and gender regimes. She was a professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick,and is the founding director of Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID).
Fatima Sadiqi is a senior professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University,in Fez,Morocco.
Rosalind Clair Gill is a British sociologist and feminist cultural theorist. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City,University of London. Gill is author or editor of ten books,and numerous articles and chapters,and her work has been translated into Chinese,German,Portuguese,Spanish and Turkish.
Joan Claire Tronto,is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota,and was previously professor of women's studies and political science at Hunter College and the Graduate School,City University of New York.
Judith Baxter was a British sociolinguist and Professor of Applied linguistics at Aston University where she specialised in Gender and Language,and Leadership Language. She served in editorial positions with several academic journals.
DrEsther Ngan-ling Chow is a sociologist and Emerita Professor at the American University,Washington D.C.,United States.
Changes in gender roles in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism have been an object of historical and sociological study.
Krassimira Daskalova is a Bulgarian academic and pioneer in gender studies. She served as editor of L'Homme:European Journal of Feminist History from 2003 to 2011 and is co-editor of Aspasia since 2007. Between 2005 and 2010 she was president of the International Federation for Research in Women's History.
Gail Lewis is a British writer,psychotherapist,researcher,and activist. She is visiting senior fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics,and Reader Emerita of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College,London. She trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.
Elizabeth Mary Ettorre is an Anglo-American feminist sociologist.
Nükhet Sirman is a Turkish social anthropologist. She earned a doctorate degree from Britain's University College London in 1988,and since 1989,she is a professor of anthropology at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul,Turkey. She has done academic analysis of the feminist movement in Turkey and introduced the concept of "familial citizenship" in the academic realm.
Joyce Outshoorn is a professor emeritus of Leiden University. She served as head of the Women's Studies Department from 1987 to 1999. Simultaneously between 1992 and 2000,she was chair of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. From 2007 to 2011,she served on the Steering Committee of the Feminism and Citizenship project (FEMCIT) funded the European Union. She was honored with the Career Achievement Award for 2009 by the European Consortium for Political Research.
Sabine Strasser is an Austrian social anthropologist who specializes in migration and gender issues. She evaluates the political nature of transnational relationships,particularly with regard to diversity and multiculturalism. She was one of the first researchers hired when the University of Vienna's founded its Inter-University Coordination Center of Women's Studies in 1993. She has taught at the University of Vienna and the Middle East Technical University in Ankara,Turkey. Since 2013,she has served as a professor at the University of Bern.
Sally Hines is a British sociologist and gender studies scholar. She is Professor of Sociology and Director of Equality,Diversity and Inclusion at the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. She is the daughter of Barry Hines,the novelist and screenwriter whose most famous book,A Kestrel for a Knave,was turned into the 1969 film Kes.
