Web Link ATHENA
ATHENA is a Socrates Thematic Network Project in which 80 Women's and Gender Studies Programmes at universities, research institutes and documentation centres in Europe participate. ATHENA was created in 1996 by the Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe (AOIFE), and was selected as a Socrates Thematic Network Project in September 1998. The ATHENA central coordination is located at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. |
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Web Link University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
The University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies is a wholly multidiscipinary centre within the University. Spanning a number of critical topics across the disciplines, from social theory to biomedical advances, the aim of the Centre is to increase our capacity for rigorous gender analysis and to promote awareness of its relevance in historic, economic, political, social and scientific contexts. The Centre provides a research MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, is a locus for international gender research and runs a series of academic events, including a multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar, Symposia and a number of Public Lectures - together these events make up our Public Event Series, which is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press. |
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Web Link IFTR. The Institute for Feminist Theory and Research
The Institute for Feminist Theory and Research supports women's research and development within the worldwide community. The institute supports schemes for spanish lessons, french lessons, german lessons.Feminist history refers to the re-reading and re-interpretation of history from a feminist perspective. It is not the same as the history of feminism, which outlines the origins and evolution of the feminist movement. It also differs from women's history, which focuses on the role of women in historical events. The goal of feminist history is to explore and illuminate the female viewpoint of history through rediscovery of female writers, artists, philosophers, etc, in order to recover and demonstrate the significance of women's voices and choices in the past. |
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Web Link GENESIS
Genesis supports research into women's history. It consists of a dataset with descriptions of women's history collections from museums, libraries and archives in the United Kingdom and a Guide to sources that provides access to a wide range of international web resources on women's history. Genesis is currently maintained by the staff of The Women's Library at London Metropolitan University. From Spring 2011 the dataset is being developed in collaboration with the Archives Hub. Genesis was originally developed in 2002 with funding from the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP). |
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Web Link Women's Studies
This interdisciplinary degree equips students with the critical and research tools needed for women’s studies in the humanities. It provides a systematic introduction to feminist theory, and enables students to gain the skills necessary to engage in original research into topics in the humanities relating to women and to gender, in a university with unrivalled facilities for both traditional and computer-age research. Teaching is delivered through close individual supervision, as well as a carefully designed programme of lectures and classes led by specialists from a wide variety of disciplines. |
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Web Link The International Gender Studies Centre (IGS)
The International Gender Studies Centre (IGS) was formally established at Queen Elizabeth House in 1983 (as the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women) to advance research on gender, culture and development. Before that, it had existed for over ten years as a group convening weekly seminars at Queen Elizabeth House on women from cross-cultural perspectives. The Centre's members form a multi-disciplinary research unit with backgrounds in social anthropology, human geography, history, literature, law, sociology and politics. |
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Web Link The UCLA Center for the Study of Women
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women is an internationally recognized center for research on gender, sexuality, and women's issues and the first organized research unit of its kind in the University of California system. Though CSW is funded by the Division of Social Sciences, it serves the entire university. CSW is part of the Division’s commitment to gender equity and research parity at UCLA. Its mission is to develop and foster research, to facilitate productive scholarly relationships, and to aid recruitment and retention efforts. Established in 1984, it draws on the expertise of more than two hundred members from thirty-four departments and ten UCLA professional schools. CSW administers research grants for faculty and students; organizes research projects, conferences, seminars, and public lectures; and publishes a monthly web newsletter that features research, conference reports, faculty profiles, and announcements. |
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Web Link Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)
Since its founding in 1996, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) at the University of Chicago has become a major center for research and graduate training in gender and sexuality studies. CSGS has been committed to teaching, research, and active engagement at the University, while also reaching out to public areas where gender and sexuality come together with other political, artistic, and intellectual concerns. |
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Web Link School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work
The School has a reputation for research that focuses on Ireland in an international context, including comparisons with Europe, the US, the Global South and North-South Irish comparisons, including specific issues around borders. We continue to advance scholarship in a number areas: childhood and childcare; gender and welfare; the development of new theoretical ideas and measurement techniques in the field of poverty and equality; historical and contemporary social movements; health, illness and disability; drug use and misuse; and social identities. |
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Web Link Feminism and Women's Studies
The Feminism and Women's Studies site, one of 44 websites hosted by the EServer, was first designed in 1993 by members of the Carnegie Mellon University Women's Center. One of the earliest women's studies web sites on the Internet, our site has since the outset been very well known: today it is number 2 in Google searches for "feminism" and number 4 in Google searches for "women's studies", and is currently one of the most popular women's studies web sites in the world, currently publishing documents to approximately 25,000 readers per month.The Women's and Gender Studies Program at Bridgewater State College was established in 1983, and is part of a rapidly growing course of study nationwide. The Minor became Women's and Gender Studies in 2004, to reflect new developments both nationally and internationally. The program recently expanded in 2009 to include a GLBT Minor and a Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate. Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program which combines the analytical tools of different disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, literature, history, foreign languages, and philosophy when studying the world.Welcome to WSSLINKS, developed and maintained by the Women & Gender Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries. The purpose of WSSLINKS is to provide access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies. |
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Web Link Gender Forum
Gender Forum is an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. As an electronic journal, gender forum offers a free-of-charge platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy. |
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Web Link African Gender Institute
Our Goals: developing theoretical and practical understandings of gender and its importance in the process of social transformation in Africa; developing teaching and research in gender studies so as to advance the pursuit of intellectual excellence at the University of Cape Town and other African educational institutions; developing teaching and research in gender studies so as to advance the pursuit of intellectual excellence at the University of Cape Town and other African educational institutions; facilitating linkages between intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners working towards the attainment of gender equity in Africa; strengthening the intellectual and leadership capacity of those working towards the attainment of gender equity in Africa; building a proactive and responsive knowledge and information baseThe Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) is multidisciplinary. It focuses on the ways in which women and men construct themselves as gendered and sexual beings, analyzes how gender and sexuality shape virtually every aspect of our daily lives, and probes the relationship between biological sex differences and the social and cultural roles of women and men. |
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Web Link Osaka Prefecture University
As the mission of a public university to be open to all, the “Research Organization for University-Community Collaborations” (RO-UCC) which consists of 6 new education and research centers—the Community Revitalization, Community Welfare, Women’s Studies, Regional Culture, Radiology, and Lifelong Learning Research Centers—has also been established. |
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