GENDER STUDIES CENTRE

UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA, LATVIA

1998

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Head of the Unit

Objectives

  • To be a study and research centre dealing with women/men studies and family research topics, such as feminist and gender theories, gender and power, religion, culture, history, politics, philosophy.
  • To have an interdisciplinary education and research programme which summarises and analyses the different aspects of gender in social sciences and humanities.
  • The Centre offers free choice study courses, organizes conferences and summer schools, and creates publications. A wide range of books and materials on gender studies are available in the Centre’s reading room.