Gender Studies (and related topics)

The Subject Centre supports interdisciplinary approaches to gender studies and the wide range of disciplines related to issues of gender, feminism and LGBT theory.

We have the resources listed below.

Responding to sexual stereotypes of fundamentalist and charismatic leaders in Religious Studies

Julia Collar

This report looks at the sexual sterotyping of fundamentalist religious leaders such as Osama Bin Laden.


Towards Equality and Diversity - Implementing the Employment and Race Directives

Julia Collar

This article reviews the implications for the teaching of religious studies in light of the European Community Employment and Race Directives of the EC Treaty.


Widening Access to Sacred and Canonical Texts in Teaching of Religion, Philosophy and Culture

Deryn Guest

This report outlines issues raised at a workshop on widening access to sacred and canonical texts in teaching religion, philosophy and culture.


Launch of the Feminist Theory and Research Website, Database, and Register Institute for Feminist Theory and Research (IFTR), University of Liverpool

Julia Collar

This report summarises proceedings at an event to launch a register of feminist theoreticians.


We have also published articles in our journal, Discourse, on these issues:

Speaking of the Sexual by Julia Collar
This article is about sexuality in religious studies.

Making it safe to think differently about sex in the Academy by Dee Any-Chinn
This article is about sexuality and diversity in the classroom.