CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF YORK, UNITED KINGDOM

1984

Management and equipment. Structure

Centre Staff:

  • Director
  • Lecturers
  • CWS Associate Staff
  • Honorary Staff

Objectives

  • Commitment to acknowledge the experiences of women in non-Western societies.
  • High profile in debates about cultural reproduction.
  • Focus on sexual diversities.
  • Emphasis on intersectionality.
  • Reflection on the wider ethical implications of feminist research, including power relations.
  • Unique research training programmes.
  • Innovations in teaching, such as writing and photography workshops.

Ongoing projects

  • «Violence Elsewhere»: Imagining Violence Outside Germany since 1945 (Clare Bielby).
  • Journal of Gender Studies (from 1991).
  • Cultivate (an annual, open-access journal run by our doctoral and post-doctoral researchers).