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ISD1: Feminists Without Borders


About

This working group intends to encourage collaborations among those who conduct feminist research or engage in feminist advocacy from various disciplinary and national backgrounds.

Inactive since: 2021

  • University of Rochester
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  • Rochester Institute of Technology

Collaborative Goals

The working group wants to transcend 1) disciplinary boundaries, 2) regional and national borders and 3) the scholarship-activism divide. The goal of this group is to combine resources and expertise of the members, and to come up with creative and effective ways to study and address gender inequality in a global context and also in relation to other systems of oppression that intersect with it. We intend to provide an intersectional feminist lens to humanistic scholarship beyond gender studies. As the reality of globalization makes it imperative to understand the local and the global, the group will utilize the localized knowledge of its members and their network as an entry point of understanding the global experience of exclusion and marginalization. While we start with the idea of “feminists without borders,” we also welcome those who conduct gender studies and activism related to gender issues in general. We are aware of existing working groups that also research gender-related issues. This working group, however, pays special attention to fostering connections between scholarship and activism in research as well as in education.

Group Organizers

Anthony Jimenez

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Betty Bayer

Professor of Women’s Studies

Brianna Theobald

Assistant Professor of History

Kristin Doughty

Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Rochester

May Farnsworth

Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Nickesia Gordon

Associate Professor of Communication

Wenjie Liao

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Yuhan Huang

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

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