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.
Cultural feminism is a term used to describe a variety of feminism that attempts to revalue and redefine attributes culturally ascribed to femaleness. It is also used to describe theories that commend innate differences between women and men.
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.
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. 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.
Feminist peace research uses a feminist framework to expand on conventional peace research practices,examining the roles of gender and other power structures to conceptualize and actively build peace with justice. Feminist peace research understands peace and violence to be interwoven and ongoing processes that occur at many scales,and points to how these scales are interconnected. While gender is the dominant lens through which processes of peace and violence are analyzed,this research seeks to address the ways in which other intersecting systems of power,such as race,class,sexuality,and disability,among many others,further complicate these dynamics.
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.
