The focus of Athena group 3D is to assess and reflect on new trends in postgraduate training in Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies (WGFS) in Europe. The goal is to follow the emergence of research training programmes in WGFS as well as the integration of gender perspectives in PhD programmes within existing disciplines. Issues such as WGFS curriculum development at postgraduate level, institutionalization of WGFS doctoral training, employability of PhDs who have dedicated their PhD research (or part of it) to WGFS are on the agenda of the group. Some European countries - such as for example Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands - have established degree-awarding PhD programmes in Gender Studies, while others such as Poland or Greece seem far from opening this opportunity. The structural frameworks within which doctoral students who want to integrate a gender perspective in their work are very diverse. Nevertheless, it seems to be clear that advanced level teaching materials are needed everywhere, even though the conditions for doing gender research at PhD level are very different in different countries and universities. To meet the need, working group 3D has decided to produce a transnationally situated handbook which will put focus on theoretical and methodological issues as well as on questions of qualifications and employability of PhDs who apply gender perspectives to their research.


Researching differently
Handbook for Postgraduate Research in Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies
Rosemarie Buikema, Gabriele Griffin, Nina Lykke (eds)

Table of contents

Section I
Feminist theories - Rosemarie Buikema,

• Introduction
• Chapter 1.1: Svetlana Slapsak - Eastern European feminist theory
• Chapter 1.2: Maureen McNeil and Celia Roberts: - Feminist theory and European science studies
• Chapter 1.3: Gloria Wekker and Henrietta Moore – Intimate Thruths. Theorizing Sexuality
  

Section II
Methodologies in Feminist Studies - Nina Lykke

• Introduction
• Chapter 2.1: Dorthe Staunæs and Dorte Marie Søndergaard: Intersectionality - a critical review of a much discussed concept
• Chapter 2.2: Andrea Petö - Teaching with memories
• Chapter 2.3: Allaine Cerwonka (CEU) - Asking Rude Questions about “Experience” in Feminist Research
  

Section III
Feminist research methods – Gabriele Griffin

• Introduction
• Chapter 3.1: Gabriele Griffin (University of York) - Writing about research methods in the arts/humanities
• Chapter 3.2: Jasmina Lukic and Adelina Sanchez (CEU, Budapest and University of Granada) - Feminist perspectives on close reading
• Chapter 3.3: Rosemarie Buikema (University of Utrecht) – Visual Analysis
  

Section IV
Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity in Feminist Studies – Nina Lykke

• Introduction
• Chapter 4.1: Nina Lykke - Feminist Studies and post-disciplinary disciplinarity
• Chapter 4.2: Mia Liinason - Provoking borders: interdisciplinarity and intersectionality in Feminist Studies
• Chapter 4.3: Christine Bauhardt and Antje Hornscheidt and Susanne Baer - Transdisciplinarity in feminist studies
  

Section V
Professionalization processes in WS/GS/FS - Gabriele Griffin

• Introduction
• Chapter 5.1: Harriet Silius (Abo Akademi University) - The professionalization of feminist researchers in the Nordic countries
• Chapter 5.2: Isabel Carrera Suarez (University of Oviedo) - The professionalization of feminist researchers – the Spanish case
• Chapter 5.3: Marianne Schmidbaur and Ulla Wischermann (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt/Main) - The professionalization of Women’s Studies in Germany – An overview for PhD students
  

Section VI
Theorizing change – Rosemarie Buikema

• Introduction
• Chapter 6.1: Iris van der Tuin – Women’s Studies Research with “Waves” on re-positioning a Neo-Disciplinary Apparatus.
• Chapter 6.2: Dorothee Wiese – My Dissertation Photo Album: Snapshots from a Writing Tour.
• Chapter 6.3: Edyta Just – If writing has to do with desire, what ‘kind’ of desire is that? Between Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze.