CENTER FOR GENDER STUDIES

GHENT UNIVERSITY, BELGIUM

1991

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Direction
  • Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
  • University Central Library: Chief Librarian
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences:
  • University Hospital Ghent
  • Faculty of Sciences
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Objectives

  • To research of constructions and meanings of femininity and masculinity and the impact of sex differences on the development and production of knowledge. This objective functions as the point of departure for researchers from a variety of disciplines.
  • To expand this cooperation to other departments and faculties. The interdisciplinary character of gender studies is also emphasised in the research projects and colloquia that are supported by (members of) the Centre.

Research and results

  • Gender and nationalism. Women in /and the Flemish Movement (B. De Wever and M. Demoor, 1999-2001).
  • The voice of silence – La voz del silencio: An interdisciplinary research project about literate women and women authors in the Western European late Middle Ages (11th -15th c) from a gender perspective (Th. de Hemptinne and M. Demoor, F. Willaert, M. Gongora, 2000-2003).
  • Itineraria: Gender and Mobility in the Burgandian Netherlands (Th. de Hemptinne and M. Van Uytfanghe; D. de Boer, Prof. J. Janssens, 2000-2003).
  • Women and journalism in Flanders, 1890-1940. A contribution to cultural history (M. Demoor; A.M. Musschoot; G. Reymenants and L. Vandenbussche, 2001-2005).
  • Women as producers and links in the transmission of culture. The career path of Flemish women writers (1980-2001) (M. Demoor; F. Saeys; S. Lievens, 2002-2004).
  • Anthropological presuppositions of the Darwinian view of women: A historical-critical analysis of the conflict between feminisms and Darwinisms (M. Demoor; J. Braeckman, 2003-2006).
  • The Victorian Sonnet as a Mirror of the Gender Debate (M. Demoor, M. Van Remoortel, 2003-2007).
  • Creation of a national complaints database (M. Demoor, G. De Tré, L. Gosseye, 2005-2007).
  • Music and the Visual Arts in Modernist Poetry: Edith Sitwell, Mina Loy and others (M. Demoor, Christopher Butler, Debora Van Durme, 2005-2009)
  • Initiating a gender mainstreaming policy at Ghent University (M. Demoor; H. Pyck, 2005-2006).
  • Gertrude Stein and Gilles Deleuze: an analysis of modernist poetry (M. Demoor; B. Keunen; Sarah Posman, 2005-2009).
  • Study in view of determining action guidelines concerning gender and migration in the framework of the projects of the Institute for the Equality of Women and Men (R. Pinxten, C. Longman, M. Demoor, G. Verstraete; G. Coene, 2005).
  • Judith Butler Revisited (G. Buelens; M. Demoor; Ruben De Baerdemaeker, 2005-2009).