The Centre for Women's studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to issues of gender and constructions of female subjectivity and experience, using a variety of feminist models of analysis. Students are thus required to develop a range of methodological skills by means of their engagement with different materials and discourses including historical documents, philosophy, sociological perspectives, considerations of geographical space and location, semiotic analyses of texts, and crosscultural representations of gender. In the context of this disciplinary diversity, the centre aims to introduce students to questions about the formulation of sexual difference, the reproduction of roles of gender and different accounts of the construction of patriarchy or phallocentrism. A consideration of contemporary debates necessarily involves an engagement with the wide-ranging field of writings within theoretical feminisms, thereby challenging students to develop a proficiency with skills of theoretical analysis and critique.
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