Research priorities 2016-2019
The Gender Institute has identified several key axes of research to be supported or developed as a priority. These axes are by no means restrictive and should not to be understood as exhaustive of all research possibilities; instead they identify promising, acknowledged or emerging issues and questions.
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Axis 1 - Epistemology and Gender Theories
Genesis and genealogy, categories and modes of analysis
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Axis 2 - Politics, Care, Justice
Over the recent decades, gender studies have interrogated the very possibility, as well as the modes of, objectifying social forms of domination in a rigorously scientific manner. In this perspective, a large body of research is (...)
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Axis 3 — Territorialities, Spaces, Globalisation
Gender and sexualities are present throughout space and time - in discourse and actions, in practices and subjectivities. This means that gender and sexual differences are at the very foundation of today’s societies. And yet we still (...)
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Axis 4 — Gender and Temporalities
The research carried out by historians over the last forty years has revealed the historically constructed character of gender difference, but also shattered the idea of a steady progress towards women’s emancipation, gender equality (...)
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Axis 5 — Gender, Production, Markets
Work has long been the central object of research on gender inequality. The labour market is constantly undergoing changes; social relations keep shifting and gender continues to be produced and dismantled through the various issues (...)
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Axis 6 - Creation, the Arts and Literature
Literary history and art history had long remained devoted to the questions of national heritage, serving a national narrative transmitted by the educational system. In this context, women’s works have been marginalised, ignored or (...)
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