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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 School of Arts, Languages and Literatures. It also draws members from, and collaborates with, other Schools 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 (incorporating the Feminist Research Network).
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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Images on this page and in the header design for this site are based on works by Lynn Hershman and are ©Lynn Hershman.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 15 May 2009 )
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Latest News and Events |
- *Next CISSGE seminar*: Dr Jason Hartford (CISSGE, Exeter), "Masculinity and the Meanings of Thinness", 4-5pm, Wednesday 17th February 2010, LT4.2 Queen's Building.
- *CISSGE ANNUAL CONFERENCE* in collaboration with, and to be held at, the IGRS, London.
"Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day", 18-19 March 2010. Click here for details.
- GRANTS AND AWARDS *New Story* click here for full details.
CISSGE's founding Director, Prof. Lisa Downing, has been awarded a 2009 Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of her multi-disciplinary research on French and European sexuality.
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PUBLICATION OF THE MONTH
*New publications by CISSGE authors of relevance to the Centre's themes and concerns*
JANUARY 2009: Dr Helen Vassallo, CISSGE's Deputy Director, is a specialist in French and Francophone women's writing, illness narratives, and trauma and conflict studies. Helen has just published a chapter entitled "'Cette nuit, aura-t-elle une aube?' The fate of the (anti)-heroine in Simone de Beauvoir's Le Sang des autres and Régine Deforges' La Bicyclette bleue" in French and Francophone Women Facing War (ed. Alison Fell, Peter Lang, 2009).
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