Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Women's and Gender Studies

This group comprises scholars from a range of disciplines including historical studies, anthropology, media and film, literary and social studies working on women and/gender issues in a wide range of historical, social and cultural contexts. There are a number of areas of interest including the women’s movement in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s in Britain, biographies of feminists, autobiographies and life stories, women’s magazines, women and film, women and seventeenth-century literature, the civil rights movement in the USA, gender and international development in India, Pakistan, Tanzania and Sierra Leone, dowry practices, religion and women’s rights, the theory and practice of Non-Governmental Organisations in the developing world.

Contact: June Purvis and Tamsin Bradley

Academic members:

• Angela Crack
• Christine Etherington-Wright
• Laurel Forster
• Laura Hayman
• Ann Matear
• Kay Peggs
• Bronwen Price
• Lee Sartain
• Patricia Shamai
• Esther Sonnet
• Anna Syngellakis
• Jacki Tapley
• Sharon Wheeler
• Maureen Wright
• Natalya Vince