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Research Frontiers in Gender Studies

Intersectionality, Multi-Axis Oppression, and Structural Inequality

Explores how gender intersects with other social categories like race, class, and disability to shape power distribution and multiple forms of inequality at the institutional level.

Example questions: How do intersecting identities shape institutional power structures?

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Algorithmic Bias and Digital Governance

Investigates how AI and big data encode and reinforce gender bias, and the mechanisms of technological disciplining and censorship imposed by platforms on gender and sexual minorities.

Example questions: How do algorithms perpetuate gender bias in digital spaces?

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Economic Participation, Labor Markets, and the Care Economy

Analyzes gender gaps in wages and senior leadership, and assesses the value and exploitation of unpaid care labor and affective labor.

Example questions: How do labour policies reshape women's bargaining power?

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Political Empowerment, Women's Leadership, and Representation

Focuses on barriers to women's participation in government and decision-making bodies worldwide, and evaluates policy tools like quotas to increase female political representation.

Example questions: What barriers prevent women from achieving political leadership?

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Queer Theory, Trans Politics, and Anti-Normativity

Challenges traditional binary gender and heteronormativity, examining the social construction, rights advocacy, and legal change for non-binary and transgender identities.

Example questions: How do legal systems recognize and protect non-binary identities?

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Environmental Justice, the Climate Crisis, and Ecofeminism

Examines the differential impact of climate change and environmental crises on women and marginalized groups, integrating environmental issues into a critique of gender and power distribution.

Example questions: How does climate change disproportionately affect women and marginalized groups?

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Toxic Masculinity, Affective Labor, and Alternative Constructions

Critiques the social impact of harmful masculinities under patriarchy, and explores and supports caring, non-dominant alternative constructions of masculinity.

Example questions: How can alternative masculinities challenge patriarchal norms?

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Digital Feminism, Online Activism, and Neoliberal Critique

Analyzes the potential and limitations of digital platforms as new venues for feminist mobilization and debate, and critiques the marketization of women's empowerment under neoliberal ideology.

Example questions: How does neoliberalism co-opt feminist movements?

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East Asian Gender Studies Core Topics

The Chinese Mainland

Online Feminist Discourse, State Governance, and Women's Status in the Digital Economy

Focuses on feminist activism and discourse on social media, policy evaluation mechanisms like gender budgeting, and the impact of digital economy development on women's labor status.

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Taiwan

Queer Citizenship, Legal Innovation, and Deepening Gender Equality Education

Centers on the restructuring of family law after marriage equality, legal identity recognition for transgender individuals, and the deepening of relationship education following the Gender Equality Education Act.

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Hong Kong

Transnational Labor, Post-Colonial Intersectionality, and Urban Gender Politics

Focuses on the multi-axis oppression (race-class-gender) of transnational domestic workers in the post-colonial context, and women's participation in urban politics and media.

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South Korea

The Low Fertility Crisis, Radical Feminism, and Masculinity Anxiety

Examines social policies under South Korea's ultra-low fertility, radical feminist responses like the 4B Movement, and the crisis of masculinity under patriarchy.

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Japan

Aging Society, Persistent Workplace Inequality, and the Critique of Patriarchy/Capitalism

Focuses on the limitations of "Women's Active Promotion" laws, the impact of aging on care labor, and systematic theoretical critique of the dual oppression of patriarchy and capitalism.

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