CENTER FOR GENDER STUDIES (CEG)

UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

2008

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Head(s) of unit
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
  • Administrative and Technical staff

Objectives

  • To promote the development of research on gender in social sciences at the Unil, to nurture interdisciplinary dialogue in Gender Studies through activities of research animation, and to provide scientific supervision to students wishing to integrate Gender Studies into their academic curriculum and/or adopt a gender perspective in their research.
  • The CEG regularly organizes scientific conferences to publicize a plurality of research in Gender Studies carried out in Switzerland and abroad.
  • The CEG actively participates in the development of Gender Studies at national and international level.

Research and results

  • Sexe, classe, race et caste: intersectionnalité des rapports sociaux (Patricia Roux, 2009-2013).
  • Coopération nationale: second projet de Coopération CUS (Patricia Roux, 2008-2012).

Publications (295) since 2003. [Last publications-2023]:

  • Calderaro, Charlène, “The racialisation of sexism: how race frames shape anti-street harassment policies in Britain and France”, Policy & Politics, 2023, pp. 1-26.
  • Delage Pauline, Roca i Escoda Marta, “Intimate Partner Violence as a complex problem? The multiple conceptions of gender in Swiss public action”, Swiss Journal of Sociology, 49 (1), 2023, pp. 215-231.
  • Alice Romerio, Le Travail féministe: le militantisme au Planning familial à l’épreuve de sa professionnalisation, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2022.

Ongoing projects

Publications:

  • Ordinary Defensive Medicine: in the Shadow of General Practitioners’ Postures Toward (over)Medicalization (Cordey Michael, Chatelard Sophia, Widmer Daniel, Ouvrard Partick, Herzig Lili Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Peer-reviewed).
  • Models of Professionalism and Perceptions of Gender Discrimination in the Legal Professions. In: Insarauto Valeria, Boni-LeGoff Isabel, Mallard Grégoire, Lépinard Eléonore, Le Feuvre Nicky dans Bellini Andrea, Maestrepieri Lara (eds.) Professionalism and Social Change: Processes of Differentiation Within, Between and Beyond Professions, Palgrave.