Created in 1993, as the Family and Gender Relations area, adopting, from 2004, the name Gender Studies, this line of research is dedicated to understanding the various aspects of relations involving gender in social life. The line seeks to provide instruments for the theoretical and methodological refinement of research in this field, from an interdisciplinary perspective, aiming at providing student education and the constitution of research groups. The line has focused its efforts on making the articulations between gender and other differentiation categories intelligible, also considering the interfaces between gender and various manifestations present in the social world.
The courses and ongoing research are organized around the following topics:
· Corporalities, Science, and Technology;
· Sexuality: eroticism, pornography, sex markets, sex work, sexual diversity, sexual policies, reproductive technologies;
· Life course, generations, and care;
· Cultural production: artistic production; media;
· Violence; legal practices; penitentiary institutions; human trafficking;
· Family relationships: conjugality; parenting; kinship;
· Intimacy; loving relationships;
· Feminism, arenas of agency and political action;
· Work relationships;
· Migration, mobility and transnationality;
· State, Human Rights, Truth Commission and Political Missing Persons.
It should be noted that this line maintains a rich dialogue and partnership with university research centers and nuclei, in particular the PAGU Gender Studies Center (PAGU/UNICAMP).