"Why Feminism ? An open discussion about doing Gender research."

What does a gender perspective allow in research? How do we know research to be feminist, queer and/or postcolonial? What questions does that raise for our work?

This session for  LSE Gender MSc Students will run as an interactive workshop aimed at exploring the possibilities and tensions inherent to gender research. Three short papers bring together discussions around the “self-evident” assumptions that guide whether a project is or isn’t one of gender studies; whether and how feminist, queer and/or postcolonial frameworks can ask unique questions about concepts and objects of study; whether these frameworks allow, or make impossible, communication across and outside of the field; and the tensions that arise in doing such research in practice. This introductory workshop led by PhD students working across disciplines asks: what does it mean to say we are working with gender studies?