This line of research encompasses studies that connect gender issues with social, cultural, and political expressions, experiences, and practices. Its overall objective is to provide tools for theoretical and methodological refinement, taking into account the connections between gender and other categories of differentiation, such as age, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexuality. Professors in this line of research address the following research topics: processes of subjectivation and arenas of agency; processes of racialization and racism; aging and generation; kinship, conjugality, romantic relationships, and reproductive technologies; eroticisms; sexual economies and sex work; science and technology; cultural and artistic production; media, market, and consumption; prisons and human trafficking; transnationality, migration, and refuge. The sub-lines of research, permeated by a concern for the defense of human rights, are as follows:
• Feminisms, sexual politics, and sexualities;
• Gender, knowledge production and/or cultural production;
• Corporealities, aging and life course, racialization processes;
• Kinship, romantic relationships, intimacy, and care;
• State, violence, legal practices, prison institutions, and security;
• Mobility, transnationalization, migration, refuge, human trafficking.