DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The department includes scholars with interests in historical and contemporary feminist theories as well as gender as a textual- interpretive and methodological category of analysis. Specific areas of research and inquiry include the gendering of social and political rights of citizenship; gender and problems of representation; how discourses of gender and sex difference frame attitudes, institutions and practices of politics; gender as an “intersectional” element along with race, class, and sexuality, in empirical and comparative political analysis; feminist theories of the state; and feminist approaches to gender as an emancipatory political category. 

The department’s primary affiliations are:

• Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
• The Sexualities Studies Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

Political Science faculty with research and teaching interests in feminist and gender studies: