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Minsk Center for Gender Studies was established at Women's Non-State College "ENVILA". The Head of the Center is Irina Tchikalova (M.A. in Women's Studies, York University, Ph.D in History, BSU).The Mission of the Center is research, education, information and consulting activity in the area of gender problems and defending the legal rights of women.

Affiliated with ENVILA, the Center is concerned with carrying out research in topical women's and gender issues. The Center applies up-to-date techniques and develops its research base. It also encourages students' involvement in scientific and research work. One of the main objectives of the Center is introducing Women's Studies and Gender Studies courses as a part of the University curricula. Among the courses the Center introduced for teaching from 1998/99 academic year, are: The Introduction to Gender Studies, History of Women's Movement and Feminist Philosophy, Sociology of Gender, Representation of Women in the Arts, The Representation of Sex in Religious Systems. The Center would appreciate the possibility to host professors from the country and abroad for short visits to deliver lectures in above mentioned fields and others. Such short intensive lecturing visits will form the beginning of further collaboration - from joint research projects to curriculum development.

The Center focuses on the unequality of women in the society and is working on bringing changes into the women's lives in Belarus. The Center cooperates with the Centers for Gender Studies in Charkov, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg as well as with women's non-government organizations worldwide.

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Address: 3, Velozavodskaya, 220033, Minsk, Belarus
Mailing Address: 220002, P.O. Box 200, Belarus, Minsk, WNC "Envila"
Tel. (375) 017 - 214-8918,
Tel/Fax: (375) 017 - 226-0687.


E-mail: ira@tchikal.belpak.minsk.by;
envila@user.unibel.by