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Centre for Gender Studies

PhD Students

Hila Amit
Hila Amit

Home and Away – Queer Palestinians and Israelis in the Diaspora

Leyli I. Behbahani
Leyli I Behbahani

Iranian Feminisms: Local and Global Intersecting (working title)

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Ozlem Caliskan Ozen
Ozlem Ozen Caliskan

Challanges and Resistances Against Militarism: Women in Turkey

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Valeria Dessi
Valeria Dessi

Wiring presence: women's rights and digital narratives among young women activists in Egypt (2005-present)

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Zuhre Emanet
Zuhre Emanet

Gender and Education in Turkey: An ethnographic study of reproduction and production of gender within schooling in low-income groups in Istanbul (working title)

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Alaya Forte
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Gender and difference in European local and national politics: The case of women of Musilm and Arab background

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Christianne France Collantes
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Re-Interpretations of Religion and Women's Rights: Exploring Discourses on Catholicism and Reproductive Health in the Philippines

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Muna Hersi
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Rethinking empowerment and agency: A case study of Negotiation process after rape in Somaliland

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Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Eleanor Tiplady Higgs

Christianity and transnational feminism in the Kenyan women's movement (working title)

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Alicia Izharuddin
Alicia Izharuddin

Construction of 'new' Muslim femininities and masculinities in post-New Order cinema


Afaf Jabiri
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Women’s Rights in Postcolonial States: A case study of the Institution of Wilaya over women in Jordan and Yemen

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Jennifer Langer
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Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Iranian Jewish Exiled Women Writers

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Rouba Mhaissen
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Disentangling Economic Effects on Patterns of Marriage Making and Breaking in Lebanon

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Lara Momesso
Lara Momesso

Analysing marriage migrants' social movements: three case studies of Chinese spouses in Taipei

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Najwa Mroue
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The Female Image in Contemporary Lebanese Music Videos (working title)

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Katherine Natanel
Katherine Natanel

Active (Dis)engagement: The Gendered Production of Political Apathy in Israel

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Isabella Ng
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Is there still a Gender Divide? A study of the indigenous women in Hong Kong since the legitimization of female land inheritance during the post-colonial era

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Marta Pietrobelli
Marta Pietrobelli

Institutionalizing Gender: Women's Political Participation in Jordan

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Jaipooja Shah
Jaipooja Shah

Masculinities and shifting concepts and practices of honour among British-born South Asian men: The implications for women

Nafiseh Sharifi
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Body and Sexuality: Narratives of two generations of Iranian women (working title)

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Sehin Teferra
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Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement? : Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work (working title)

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Preet Kaur Virdi
Prit Kaur Virdi

Accessing justice when Families Breakdown: Divorcing South Asian women in Ontario, Canada


Elena Zambelli
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Provisional title: Bodies for contest, bodies to conquest? Unpacking Italian women's subjectivities in a neopatrimonial state

Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe
Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe

Perceptions and practices of citizenship among Palestinian feminists in Israel