By Adriana Urbano Professor Anne Fausto Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Biology at Brown University, delivered the 2019 Ursula Hirschmann Lecture on Gender at the EUI. In her talk, she laid out what she thinks developmental psychology is getting wrong and how we need to rethink gender and sex. A mistaken approach to gender Professor Anne […]

“As far-right politicians become entrenched in Europe, both at the European Parliament and within national parliaments across the Continent, they are taking aim at experts and intellectuals they present as members of an out-of-touch, corrosive elite. Several academic disciplines are subject to scrutiny and attack, but gender studies has become a particularly vilified target. For […]

“For most of human history, though, that perspective has not been recorded. Going back to the theory of Man the Hunter, the lives of men have been taken to represent those of humans overall. When it comes to the other half of humanity, there is often nothing but silence. And these silences are everywhere. Films, […]

“The gender pay gap data that we discuss generally applies to white women. If we start disaggregating the data along racial and ethnic lines, then there will be different pay gap days. The national pay gap for Bangladeshi and Pakistani women, for example, is 26%. And if we look at universities – Rianna Croxford recently […]

“In November 2017 a group of protesters in São Paulo burnt an effigy of acclaimed gender theorist Judith Butler outside an academic conference she was attending, while waving crucifixes and national flags and shouting “burn the witch!” One sign read, “Judith Butler’s dream is to destroy your children’s sexual identity.” Butler has been just one […]

“Many said a wider culture of harassment, sexism and racism had to be tackled in French media and journalism colleges. A young magazine writer told the Guardian how a visiting journalist teacher at her college messaged students appearing to promise jobs in exchange for dates. Another journalist described an older colleague physically assaulting her, but […]