We have a vivid research environment focusing on gender and sexuality. Anchored in a feminist, queer, transfeminist and/or crip-theoretical genealogy, the research environment has over the years grown into a strong research profile in the Department. Drawing on the expertise of internationally recognized scholars in the Department, the research environment has developed strong national, Nordic and

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-0/our-research/gender-sexuality-queer-trans - 2025-08-19

Commercial Sex, ‘Sexual Assistance’ and People with Disabilities Garofalo Geymonat, Giulia. Commercial Sex, ´Sexual Assistance´ and People with Disabilities: A Qualitative Inquiry. Finansierat av Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (Marie Curie) While the sexuality of people with disabilities has been included within the human rights agenda (UNCRPD 2006), the disability movement acro

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-2/research-projects-department/current-projects/sexual-assistance - 2025-08-19

Exploring practices, strategies and visions within third wave feminist activism in Sweden. Liinason, Mia. 2012-2015. Feminist critique, feminist resistance, feminist hopes.Exploring practices, strategies and visions within third wave feminist activism in Sweden. Financed by Vetenskapsrådet. This project is described in SwedishAlla former av feminism söker svar till orsaken av social orättvisa och

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The Department is the locus for an internationally renowned, excellent and expansive research environment exploring questions of race, migration and nationalism. Carrying further a long tradition of developing post- and decolonial knowledges, the research environment has over the years become the leading hub for deepening our insights into these critical schools of thought in a Swedish and Nordic

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Situated in the trajectories of socialist, feminist and Marxist perspectives on questions of social reproduction, care, labor and work, the Department is the host of a research environment which pioneers new questions on an ever more significant topic.  Working close to empirically grounded experiences and developing strong networks and partnerships with societal institutions, such as the hospital

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The division is an institutional member of the following international and national research networks. AtgenderThe European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, is a broad association for academics, practitioners, activists and institutions in the field of Women’s, Gender, Transgender, Sexuality, and Queer studies, feminist research, women’s, sexual and LGBTQI rights, equa

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A comparative study of feminist strategies and political discourses on gender equality and multiculturalism in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Liinason, Mia. 2012-2014. Universal values, particular contexts, situated struggles. A comparative study of feminist strategies and political discourses on gender equality and multiculturalism in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Projektet genomförs av Mia Liinason o

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(part of the project “In the footprints of Hedda Andersson” funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences) PhD Candidate: Lovise Haj BradeAbstract:The project departs from a political and theoretical interest in analysing the im/perceptibility of ‘firstness’ (as opposed to otherness) - i.e. the constitutive inside of privilege rather than it’s much discussed outside. Inspired by queer theory and critic

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-2/research-projects-department/doctoral-projects/expected-inclusion-middleclass-subjectification-swedish-academia - 2025-08-19

PhD candidate: Ina KnobblockAbstract: My research explores the contribution of Indigenous feminism to social theory in general and to feminist theory in particular. My specific area of interest are Sámi feminist perspectives. Methodologically, my work takes as its point of departure the narratives of Sámi feminists in the Nordic countries. As part of my ongoing research, I have met with and interv

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-2/research-projects-department/doctoral-projects/indigenous-sami-feminism - 2025-08-19

Lund, Sweden, April 7th-8th 2025 (N.B. New date!) For a long time, the academic study of antisemitism/anti-Jewish racism has been separated from the broader field of critical race studies, as if antisemitism were not a form of racism among others. Despite attempts to bridge the two fields, scholars and politicians continue to single out antisemitism, both inside and outside academia. The struggle

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-0/conference-beyond-polarization-and-instrumentalization-antisemitism-and-other-racisms - 2025-08-19

PhD Candidate: Katrine ScottAbstract:My PhD project focuses on the role of higher education in a post-conflict society. Central to the study is the tension between the historical legacy of a violent conflict and the emerging of a successful middle class in the larger cities with a consumer oriented lifestyle. Theoretically, the study departs from postcolonial scholarship that has illuminated the c

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-2/research-projects-department/doctoral-projects/everyday-student-lives-urban-iraqi-kurdistan - 2025-08-19

PhD Candidate: Maria ToniniAbstract: This project wishes to fill a gap in our knowledge about the socio-cultural status of female and male homosexuals (i.e. lesbians and gays) in contemporary India and Vietnam. The study will bring into dialogue current debates on recognition, rights, gender, and sexuality with the experiences of homosexuals in New Delhi and Hanoi. In contextualizing homosexual wo

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Projektet En öppen akademi är en satsning från Centrums sida på att utveckla en forskningsprofil kring makt, jämställdhet och mångfald inom akademin, utifrån feministiska, postkoloniala och queera perspketiv. Inom ramen för detta projekt är vi del av fakultetens forskningsstrategiska satsning, under titeln I Hedda Anderssons fotspår, samt del av Lunds universitets satsning på Equal opportunities.

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Here you can find all teaching staff for autumn 2014 The teachers are listed in alphabetical order (by surname) Sara GoodmanE-mail: Sara [dot] Goodman [at] genus [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara[dot]Goodman[at]genus[dot]lu[dot]se) Phone: +46 46-222 44 02Malin EsperssonE-mail: malin [dot] espersson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (malin[dot]espersson[at]ism[dot]lu[dot]se)Phone: +46 42-35 65 63Lovise Haj BradeE-m

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Maskulinitet I feminismens tjänst. Dragkingande som praktik, politik och begär Description: The aim of the thesis is to explore drag kinging as lived experience at the crossroads of masculinity, the body, and feminist politics. Drag kinging is defined as a conscious performance of masculinity. Theoretically, the study takes a feminist and queer phenomenological perspective as a point of departure.

https://www.gender.lu.se/masculinity-service-feminism-drag-kinging-practice-politics-and-desire - 2025-08-19

17 September 2025 08:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Image: Marione Lozano/Unsplash Gendering Gangs: Critical Perspectives on Youth, Masculinities, Violence, and the Gang Ethos in Sweden Research seminar, Department of Sociology, Lund University 17 September 2025 Contrary to international research on gangs there is remarkably little focus on gendered aspects of contemporary Swedish gangs. This is an opportu

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Women and the Making of Civil Societies in the Arctic Region, Asia, Latin America, and Europe Mulinari, Diana. 2011-2015. ”Negotiating Gender Equality and Feminism in Post-Social Democratic State of Sweden and Germany” som en delstudie i projektet Drömmar om förändring. Kvinnor och skapandet av det civila samhället i Arktiska regionen, Asien, Latin Amerika och Europa. Forskningsfinansiering från V

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Women and the Making of Civil Societies in the Arctic Region, Asia, Latin America, and Europe Mulinari, Diana. 2010-2015. I samarbete med Tiina Rosenberg, Helle Rydström, Chialing Yang, samt Lisbet Lewander och Lena Martinson, Göteborgs universitet Finansierat av Vetenskapsrådet. Abstract: Conflict over gender and power has been central to the history of modernity. It is the comparative and intern

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-2/research-projects-department/current-projects/imagining-change - 2025-08-19

Rydström, Helle. 2013 - . Linnaeus-Palme Exchange Program on Gender and Space; Dept. of Geography, Delhi University and Dept. of Gender Studies, Lund University. Funded by Universitets- och högskolerådet. PL Helle Rydström and Dr. Anindita Datta in collaboration with Dr. Ashis K. Saha, Sara Goodman and Maria Tonini. Linnaeus-Palme Exchange Program on Gender and SpaceCurrent projectsAbstract: Linna

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An ethnographic study of activist practices for the inclusion of excluded migrants in Sweden, Denmark and the UK. (2012-2015) Sager, Maja. 2012-2015. Contested Boundaries. An ethnographic study of activist practices for the inclusion of excluded migrants in Sweden, Denmark and the UK. Projektet finansieras av FAS Marie Curie International Postdoc Programme, COFAS och kommer genomföras på Lancaster

https://www.gender.lu.se/research-2/research-projects-department/current-projects/contested-boundaries - 2025-08-19