The Institute of Women’s Studies promotes the field of women and gender studies as an important and relevant scholarly field of inquiry at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We work to develop the field in ways that are relevant to addressing emerging questions related to gender relations as they are shaped by the dynamic social, political, and economic processes that characterize the Palestinian colonial and Arab context. Our emphasis is on an interdisciplinary approach that contributes to the development of theoretical and conceptual frameworks based on critical methodologies and forms of knowledge production in gender analysis, while also enabling researchers to use feminist analytical tools to understand mechanisms of oppression so as to develop emancipatory alternatives.
