The Doctoral Program in “Women’s studies. Gender discourses and practices” aims to offer a broad academic framework along with an efficient tool for scientific research in relation to women’s and gender relationships, more specifically, in Humanities and Social Sciences.

This implies working with interdisciplinary perspectives and incorporate analytical and methodological premises developed in the last few decades by Women’s Studies and feminist theory.

The new gender analysis category, among many others, has allowed the opening of new fields of research, the incorporation of new perspectives to traditional fields and the rethinking of most of the premises and traditional views. All of this has meant a paradigm shift, which considers women as agents and subjects of social transformation.

Thus, in the course of this doctoral program studies, the student will learn to use gender and other feminist categories of analysis in order to develop their own research in the different topics of this program, to evaluate constructed and acquired knowledge and to deconstruct those that imply boundaries to the development of these new perspectives.

This program has, in addition, a clear social compromise since it promotes the analysis of women’s experience, the reasons for their exclusion and undervaluement through history and in present time, their different life courses, their creative activity, the economical value of their non-wage labour, their contribution to the creation of welfare and peace situations, etc. All of this contributes to a bigger equality between women and men in the nowadays and forthcoming societies.