The Covid-19 pandemic has sharply clarified what social reproduction feminists have been saying for a while, namely that care work and life-making work are the essential work of society, and that this essential work ...

Usually at this time of the year, we meet at our beloved CREA café with all those students within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences who are interested in what our Faculty has to offer when it comes to ...

While peacekeeping missions are often successful in preventing conflict and violence, significant variations exist in the quality of peace.

After decades of family planning campaigns and initiatives aimed at preventing birth, many countries in Asia are now facing the exact opposite problem – they need babies.

This paper revisits Weston’s (1991) Families we choose and Butler’s (2002) discussion of (heterosexual) kinship to critically reflect on what their widespread arguments mean for queer subjects with and without wombs ...

Testosterone is not what most people think it is, and it is decidedly not a “male sex hormone.”

Our academic institutions are shaped by deeply entrenched historical patterns of exclusion and processes of racialization, which often remain invisible or are poorly understood, yet account for the conspicuous ...

The development of LGBTQ identity and rights in Poland is usually situated in the 1980s when the first queer magazines were published and the first associations were founded. In this talk, I look at processes that ...

The lecture is co-organized by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES).

This research adopts the author’s newly proposed transnational queer sociology to examine young gay male identities, as revealed in 90 in-depth interviews conducted in Hong Kong (n = 30), Taiwan (Taipei, n = 30) and ...

Home-based telework is increasingly discussed as a solution for problems in reconciling demands in work and personal life. It is, however, unclear to what extent home-based telework can also contribute to reducing ...

Disability provides a useful window through which to examine divisions that have emerged in feminist/gender/sexuality scholarship in the last forty years over equality, difference, and intersectionality.

The evolution of global capitalism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has raised unsettling questions about the increase in social dependence resulting from the decline in manufacturing jobs, the ...

How are gender-neutral toilets, headscarf debates, working mothers, lipstick lesbians, sexual intimidation at festivals, Trump, underrepresentation of women in political leadership, Gay Pride, and more, interrelated, ...

ECPG is the world-leading conference on politics and gender. ECPG offers a platform for exchange and dialogue about how understanding gender is central to understand politics and where diversity and plurality in ...

In June 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, and gender identity (SOGI)”.

What is the impact of different sex work policymaking frameworks on the rights and lives of migrant sex workers?

To better understand the everyday nature of risks associated with women engaging in sex work Dr. Serena Cruz pursued an almost three-year study—including 14-months of sustained ethnography—to answer the question: how ...

Changing socio-historical contexts notwithstanding, decades after feminist scholars first applied the lens of patriarchy to examine constructions and performances of masculinity to explain gender inequalities, many ...

Technology as a facilitator of sex trafficking has gained traction in recent years, with allegations that the advertisement of trafficked persons is migrating to escort websites and mobile applications.