University Institute on Gender Studies

Objectives

The Institute’s aims are reflection and integration from a gender perspective in all scientific areas, primarily scientific research and innovation with an interdisciplinary approach, as well as participation in national and international research networks, together with dissemination and training of specialized postgraduates with a gender perspective in the different academic fields.

Lines of research

As one of its aims, the Institute will facilitate coordination of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific studies, grouped according to the gender perspective, with the convergence of research of a sociological, legal, economical, historical, documentary, statistical, biological, journalistic, technological, philosophical, linguistic, literary, engineering, or artistic nature, among others.

Accordingly, the following Institute research lines are initially proposed:

• Geneologies of the “gender” category.
• Women’s history.
• Gender and society.
• Analysis, administration and evaluation of public policies from the gender perspective.
• Gender and leadership in politics and management.
• Representations of gender in literary, artistic, informative, documentary and audiovisual culture.
• Women in the science and technology system.
•  Legal Feminism / Feminism and human rights
• Family and Gender
• Gender Studies
• Ageing Studies
• Historical Memory
• Gender Identities, Bodies and Sexualities
• Queer Studies
• Migration Movements, Development and Welfare Policies
• Intersectionality
• Feminist Literary Criticism
• Human Rights
• Public Policies from a Gender Perspective
• Communication and Gender
• Biomedicine and Women
• Work and Gender Inequality
• Gender-Based Violence
• Ecofeminism
• Women’s History
• Gender and Politics
• Gender Impact Analysis in Budgets
• Documentation and Information Sources in Women’s Studies
• Feminist Theology
• Gender and Sport
• Prevention of Violence through New Technologies
• International Relations and Sustainable Development