Professor Andrea Cornwall

Visiting Professor

Department of Gender Studies

Languages
English
Key Expertise
Gender; Democracy; Sexualities; Reparatory justice

About me

Andrea Cornwall has more than 30 years of experience in the field of gender studies and is currently working on new research projects that interrogate the ‘trouble with gender’ from a transnational feminist perspective. Her books include Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (eds. Cornwall and Lindisfarne, 1994, Routledge), Feminisms and Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges (eds. Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead, Zed 2007), The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis (eds. Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux, Routledge 2007), Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights & Development (eds. Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Corrêa and Susie Jolly, Zed, 2008), Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure (eds. Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins, Zed 2013) and Masculinities under Neoliberalism (eds. Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne, Bloomsbury 2017). From 2006-2014 she was Director of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment transnational feminist research collective, working with more than 60 feminist researchers in 12 countries through hubs in the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia and West Africa and a “global” hub focusing on transnational feminist engagement with inter-governmental policy spaces.