About the DE

Feminist theory and research examines the complex ways in which gender--always forged in relation to race, class, sexual, (dis)ability and (trans)national identities--has organized every facet of culture, including language, identities, traditions of knowledge, methodologies, social relations, organizations, and economic systems. In making gender a central category of analysis, feminist scholarship engages a diverse set of questions such as: the relationship between language and institutions, the nature of social power and historical agency, heteronormativity, the relationship between gender and nation, alternative sexualities, and gender and representation.