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News

Making Waves... of Words

Monday 7 July 2025

What’s migration got to do with feminism? And what have they got to do with you?


Violent Concepts: Feminists Grappling with Violence, Knowledge and Practice – an interdisciplinary round table discussion.

Friday 16 May 2025

CWS organised this round table discussion involving feminist scholars from CWS, the Department of Politics, the Department of English and Related Literature, and from Newcastle University.


UK gender studies community reaffirms trans inclusion in response to Supreme Court judgment

Friday 2 May 2025

The Centre for Women's Studies joins other UK university centres, research groups and networks in gender/sexuality/feminist/women’s studies to issue a statement about the Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ’sex’ in the Equality Act 2010.


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