Research Group on Gender, Knowledge, History and Subjectivity

Description

This interdisciplinary group is mainly dedicated to the analysis of discourses on gender difference in philosophical thought, normative patterns and social imaginaries, both from a historical perspective and in the present, paying particular attention to the incorporation, rejection or negotiation of models by women and men in their practices of life and subjectivity.

Its research activity takes place in the fields of History, Philosophy and Psychology, with an interest in the incorporation of analytical tools from feminist theory, as well as innovative lines of research in other human and social sciences (Anthropology, Sociology, Literature...). In all these fields, it maintains intense and fruitful relations with groups and researchers at the forefront of national and international scientific production.

Its main objectives are critical analysis and the production of cutting-edge knowledge in research, as well as the passing on of this knowledge, through teaching innovation and dissemination, to the entire university community and to society as a whole, in pursuit of research excellence but also to contribute to the ethical and civic dimension of knowledge and to contribute to the values of equality.

To achieve these goals, the group actively participates in funded research projects, national and international networks.

Goals CT

Critical analysis and production of innovative knowledge incorporating a gender perspective.

Research lines

Subjectivity and gender: implications of socio-cultural patterns on psychological development and health
Analysis of the intrapsychic effects derived from the belief system surrounding the sexed condition of human beings. Analysis of body images and normative criteria of beauty and their impact on social well-being and health. Study of the internalisation of gender roles that justify the asymmetries of power between the sexes.
Women's and gender history
Study of the historical processes of construction of gender models and identities (femininities-masculinities), with special attention to the analysis of normative and fictional literature, as well as their internalisation, appropriation or rejection by the subjects. Analysis of social practices and intellectual strategies of relations between the sexes.
Women's citizenship, politics and equality
Analysis of philosophical discourses on the differences between the sexes, the modernity-postmodernity debate in contemporary feminisms, interpretation of the paradoxes of the Enlightenment and study of the relationship between citizenship and gender.
Feminist epistemologies
A study of the relationship between knowledge production and political action based on the different theoretical developments in the field of feminist studies that question the epistemic privilege of scientific knowledge based on the assumptions of objectivity, universality and neutrality.

Management

BOLUFER PERUGA, MONICA
PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

Research Group on Gender, Knowledge, History and Subjectivity - GECOHIS