Welcome to the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe 

The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE) promotes research and teaching in Sexuality and Gender Studies across the College of Humanities. It also draws members from, and collaborates with, other Colleges and Research Centres within the University of Exeter, and external national and international institutions. Research in CISSGE is focused broadly in three fields: Histories and Theories of Sexuality; the Body in Culture; and Feminisms and Women’s Writing.

The designation “in Europe” includes the study of British culture, postcolonial perspectives and the influence of European discourses on American/ other non-European cultures. Research undertaken in CISSGE analyses the foundational role of European politics, philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, art and literature in formulating current ideas about sex and gender. Researchers in the Centre explore concepts, discourses and representations of normative and non-normative bodies and practices in order to understand the political and ideological workings of the cultural fields of sexuality and gender.

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