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WISE: Women's International Studies Europe

Women's International Studies Europe (WISE) is the European association for individuals and institutions involved in women's studies, founded in 1990. WISE seeks to further feminist critiques of knowledge, and support practices and research, which will improve the quality of women's lives.

WISE aims to promote women's studies teaching, research and publication in Europe and defends the interests of women's studies on a European and international level in all appropriate institutions and organizations.

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Networks and Associations
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Gender studies
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ATHENA: Advanced Thematic Network in Activities in Women's Studies in Europe

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ATHENA is a Socrates Thematic Network Project in which 80 Women's and Gender Studies Programmes at universities, research institutes and documentation centres in Europe participate. ATHENA was created in 1996 by the Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe (AOIFE), and was selected as a Socrates Thematic Network Project in September 1998. The ATHENA central coordination is located at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

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Networks and Associations
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Gender studies
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Regional Network for Gender/Women's Studies in Southeastern Europe

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The regional educational (institutional) context and needs for the gender/women’s/feminist studies:

As far as the gender/feminist studies education is concerned, a shared feature in the region of Southeastern Europe is its utter absence from the institutions of the official higher education. Or, in the brighter cases (e.g., the University of Sofia where there is an integral postgraduate program, or University of Skopje offering several courses), one can speak of this field’s radical marginality, consisting in a low position on the scale of power relations (poor funding, invisibility, etc.) In many countries of SEE, the feminist scientific and theoretical thought and the production of knowledge (including education) have functioned on an informal level, in alternative spaces and, by doing so, have represented an opposition – thus, alternative and supplement – to the formal higher education. Nevertheless, the official production of knowledge and of what is considered competent professional formation rigidly maintains its ban to – according the dominant discourses - the “non-scientific” gender studies: “non-scientific” since knowledge is still deemed to be irrevocably universal and, thus, genderless/sexless.

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Networks and Associations
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Gender studies
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A Radical Voice: An email interview with Anne Bitsch

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Activism
Gender studies
Grassroots media in Europe
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In this e-mail interview Danish-Norwegian feminist activist and writer Anne Bitsch (30), generously shares some reflections on her feminist past and present.

Jenny Gunnarsson Payne: How, when and why did you become a feminist?

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Anne Bitsch
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Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
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sic! Forum für feministische GangArten (Magazine, 1993-2009)

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Vienna
Austria
48° 12' 33.1416" N, 16° 22' 22.0008" E

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[sic!] Forum für feministische Gangarten was a quarterly Austrian feminist magazine with emphasis on social, political, cultural and scientific developments in Austria and in the world: women's rights, migration, discriminations, racism, media, art/book reviews, scientific news, conferences, interviews, etc.

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Trikster: Nordic Queer Journal

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Copenhagen
Denmark
55° 40' 34.6584" N, 12° 34' 5.2176" E

Trikster is the first Nordic web magazine with a queer perspective on culture and politics. Trikster mixes genres and forms, and presents a variety of academic, activist, artistic, and political voices with a queer perspective. Trikster covers contributions in different formats, media and languages: English, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. Trikster published two issues a year. The last issue (#4) was published in 2010.

Trikster’s blog publishes information on new queer events, publications, demonstrations, and other things.

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ArtMix: Sztuka feminism kultura wizualna (E-Journal)

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Warsaw
Poland
52° 13' 46.8336" N, 21° 0' 44.0244" E

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emphasis on art, visual culture, representation etc.; since 2006 artmix is cooperating with www.obieg.pl, an art/culture net-magazine published by the Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, and moved to their website
very interesting (theoretically based) articles on feminist art/artists, interviews etc. Iza Kowalczyk also runs the Strasznasztuka2 blog

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Inter Alia: A Journal of Queer Studies

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Poland

InterAlia, a peer-edited scholarly journal for queer theory, is open to submissions from a wide range of fields, written either in Polish or in English.

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WPR Books

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Women’s Parliamentary Radio, an online radio station designed to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues and female parliamentarians in the UK. www.wpradio.co.uk was founded in 2007 and currently receives up to 56,000 hits per month. Our aim is to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues in government and provides a platform for female politicians to speak free from stereotypes and the pressure of the news agenda.

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Art
Literature
Radio
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Art
Gender studies
Political participation
Representation of women
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WPR Books

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Women’s Parliamentary Radio, an online radio station designed to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues and female parliamentarians in the UK. www.wpradio.co.uk was founded in 2007 and currently receives up to 56,000 hits per month. Our aim is to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues in government and provides a platform for female politicians to speak free from stereotypes and the pressure of the news agenda.

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Art
Literature
Radio
Topic: 
Art
Gender studies
Political participation
Representation of women
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