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Gabriele Griffin
Gender Studies, University of Hull
'European Women's Studies/Women's Studies in Europe'
Women's Studies across Europe has been significantly shaped by Anglo-American agendas. However, in their empiricist and pragmatic bases, these agendas do not inevitably reflect the issues that concern feminists in continental Europe where different intellectual traditions, divergent agendas on, for example, very different histories of racisms, anti-semitism, the decline of the welfare states, histories of war, the proximity of stable and unstable societies, and so on, influence feminist concerns. This paper draws on two different recent and on-going research projects, a volume I co-edited with Rosi Braidotti entitled Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies (London: Zedbooks, 2002) and an EU-funded cross-European research project on 'The Impact of Women's Studies Training on Women's Employment' <website: www.hull.ac.uk/ewsi> to analyse the ways in which European feminisms are significantly different from Anglo-American ones.
Bio: Professor Gabriele Griffin's research focuses on 20th century women's cultural production. She co-edits the journal Feminist Theory (Sage). Recent publications include Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain (Cambridge UP, 2003); Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing (Routledge, 2002); Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies (Zedbooks, 2002); and HIV/AIDS: Visibility Blue/s (Manchester UP, 2000). She co-ordinates an EU-funded research project on 'Employment, Equal Opportunities and Women's Studies'.
<G.Griffin@hull.ac.uk>