Call for Papers: Special issue: Aesthetic interventions to gender-based violence and sexual violence

Call for papers for the European Journal of Women's Studies, posted by SageJournals.Guest Editors:, Júlia Garraio, and Hülya AdakAesthetic interventions – including art, literature and film – have the potential to challenge, renegotiate and reconceptualise understandings of gender-based violence,

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Calls for Papers: 11th International Conference on Gender and Women's Studies 2024 "Bridging Divides: Gender, Power, and Social Transformation"

Greetings and a warm welcome to the 11th International Conference on Gender and Women's Studies 2024 (GWS2024), which will be held from July 8th to 10th in the vibrant city of Mumbai, India. This esteemed conference will be hosted by Wilson College, affiliated with the University of Mumbai, in

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Calls for Papers: 6th Global Conference on Women's Studies Zurich, Switzerland

The 6th Global Conference on Women’s Studies, July 05 - 07, 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland, encourages all to present their recent research work. This conference is considered a prestigious event organized with the motivation to provide an excellent international platform for academics, researchers,

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Gendered Analysis in Rights and Development

Women play an important role in society and their work is particularly critical for development. However, while their work is necessary for the maintenance of a community, their political, social, and economic participation is confined. Land rights, water distribution, access to resources, to

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Climate Resilience and the Role of Five Indigenous Women

By Lucia Lupotti With the beginning of 2024, we have entered the second year of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, established by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to prevent the extinction of 50-90% of spoken languages that are spoken today. Estimates claim that this

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Gender in Medical Treatment: Invisible Illnesses

by Francesca Tosi and Lucia LupottiGender-specific medicine, according to the World Health Organization, consists in studying the influence of biological (sex-defined) and socio-economic and cultural (gender-defined) differences of the state of health and disease of each person. These differences

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The eighth of March: a matter of practices

By NextGenerationCECWhat are the practices for and why are they being discussed? Harassment and gender violence are unfortunately, once again, and not only on the 8th of March, part of our everyday life. They interfere with our work and study environments, the spaces that we inhabit, and where we

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Methodological Guidance: Administrative data collection on violence against women and domestic violence

On the 18th of Dec 2023 the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) presented a new publication entitled Methodological Guidance: Administrative data collection on violence against women and domestic violence.The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has developed 13 indicators on

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The December Publications of EIGE - European Institute for Gender Equality

EIGE - European Institute for Gender Equality - has published interesting surveys for researchers* in the field of Gender Studies.We point out:Survey of Gender Gaps in Unpaid Care, Individual and Social Activities (CARE) available at the following link.Online Panel Survey of Platform Workers

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Gender Equality Index 2023

On the 24th of October, the European Institute for Gender Equality - EIGE published the Gender Equality Index 2023, the index that measures the progress of gender equality in different areas of economic and social life in the EU Member States.The thematic focus of this report is the socially

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October publications by EIGE - European Institute for Gender Equality

The EIGE - European Institute for Gender Equality has published four new Papers on current Gender Studies issues.We point out: Gender Balance In The European Green Deal available at the following link.A Better Work-Life Balance: Bridging The Gender Care Gap available at the following link.Economic

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Understanding Economic Violence against Women: The need for harmonised definitions and data in the EU

The European Institute for Gender Equality has published an important contribution on economic violence. In addition to the statistical analysis of the phenomenon, the text indicates the best methodologies for data collection and the invite to harmonise the methods of investigation by European

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Masculinities and Gender-based violence

The magazine Sage Journals has recently published three interesting articles dedicated to the theme of gender-based violence, which is placed in close dialogue with the gender experience experienced by men protagonists of this type of violence. The first article, entitled Men Have Gender and Women

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(Re)Constructing gender and sexuality in and through mobile media

The International Journal of Gender Studies AG About Gender has recently published an interesting issue dedicated to the increasingly close relationships between digital media, gender and sexuality.Every year, the academic journal welcomes and publishes articles from any field of study that adopt a

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Who is afraid of Gender ?

The Center for Gender Studies of the University of Cambridge recently announced that it has made available on YouTube the lecture held on April 26 by professor and writer Judith Butler on the theme of resistance and fears in our societies against of gender issues.Judith Butler is an American post

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