The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer: Gender Training and Gender Expertise

Abstract

Gender training and gender expertise continue to develop as professional fields, along with a growing cohort of ‘gender trainers’ and ‘gender experts’. In this panel, we interrogate the ways in which these fields – and the people that work within them – interact with, shape and are shaped by gender equality processes and policies. The papers are broadly concerned with understanding how gender experts and gender trainers contribute to change (or transformation) in gendered power relations across a range of institutions, such as development institutions, the private sector, universities. These questions are explored by paying attention to voice and social movements; feminist pedagogies; and intersectionality. The overall objective of the panel is to critically examine the possibilities and challenges for transformative change through gender training and gender expertise.

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Gender Mainstreaming: Intersecting Governmentalities and the Conceptualization of Change	View Paper Details
Working with Intersectionality: Opportunities and Challenges for Gender+ Training	View Paper Details
Constructing a ‘Pedagogy for the Privileged’ in Gender Training	View Paper Details
Gender Mainstreaming Discourse and Transformational Practices: Understanding University Change	View Paper Details
In the Business of Feminism: Consultants as Sweden’s New Gender Equality Workers?	View Paper Details