Welcome to the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender
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This centre is interdisciplinary and draws its membership from across the university. It aims to provide a focus for research and teaching on women and gender in the university and to facilitate the development of interdisciplinary research in the area of women’s and gender studies. Women’s and gender studies has been established for almost twenty years at Warwick, the Centre itself was established in 1993 and in the summer of 2002 it became a research centre based in the Department of Sociology. Professor Nickie Charles was appointed Director of the Centre in January 2005. This site contains information about who we are, the research we engage in, the activities we organise, and the Master’s teaching and PhD supervision that we offer. If you would like to become a member of the Centre or receive mailings of our activities, please email J dot P dot Cooper at warwick dot ac dot uk or write to Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Tel: +44 (0) 2476 523147
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NewsAfiya Zia, Feminist activist and scholar from Pakistan, visits Warwick Coventry women's voices and the tuc launch toolkit to measure the effects of the cuts on women and gender equality Coventry Women's Voices - Unravelling Equality - report on the impact of the cuts on women in Coventry available here New research initiative - Reconceptualising gender: transnational perspectives Cynthia Cockburn is Honorary Professor in the Centre EventsIntimate Labour - Wednesday May 2nd Graduate Seminars - 3RD TERM SESSIONS Gender and Feminist Theory Reading Group Graduate Seminars - 2ND TERM SESSIONS CFP for the Graduate Seminar Series 2011-12 Full text of Cynthia Cockburn's lecture 'War from within: a feminist understanding' available here
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