Reflections and future directions for multidisciplinary gender studies

Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

Chapter 7 in Gender Studies, 2025, pp 127-149 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The concluding chapter reviews our journey writing this book to demonstrate some different ways of understanding multidisciplinarity and gender which both respect the expertise and boundaries between disciplines as well as opening up new ways of working together producing knowledge which is also multifaceted and can accommodate change. We have suggested ways in which multidisciplinarity differs from interdisciplinarity although the two terms have much in common. Gender studies has always been seen as interdisciplinary as were women's studies. We cite examples to show how conversations can be more productive on many occasions. Some facets of discrimination and inequality lend themselves to the expressive capacities of literature and film which can better speak from the margins and give voice to those who have been silenced. Ethnographic methodologies used in sociology and the social sciences can give meaning to the scientific data of medical sciences and highlight the subjectivities which AI has more difficulty accessing. Human beings can be irrational and it is vital to make sense of these possibilities to when finding cures for diseases. Gender provides a meaningful route into generating enhanced understanding of lived experience and of bridging divides between nature and culture and sex and gender.

Keywords: Multidisciplinarity; Change; Gender; Silences; Voices; Conversations across time and space; Relationality; Inequalities; AI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800373945
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