Welcome:

The Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG) is the University of California, Berkeley’s critical feminist research center.

Established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines, the BBRG fosters research on gender and women, and is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality and transnational feminisms.


To meet the needs of its various constituencies, the BBRG engages in a range of activities. These include:
The BBRG is a member of the Gender Consortium at UC Berkeley.

Contact us at
bbrg@berkeley.edu to be added to our email list.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
BBRG PRESENTS: Impossible Translations and Unexpected Intersections

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Spaces of Exception: Violence, Technology and the Transgressive Gendered Body in the Indian Call Center Industry

Friday, February 26, 2010
BBRG PRESENTS: BBRG Annual Keynote Talk - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Thursday, March 11, 2010
Women in U.S. Right-Wing Movements

Thursday, March 18, 2010
BBRG PRESENTS: 'Fat. Gay. Gay. Fat.'
Toward a Comparative Geneology of Sexuality and Body Size


Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Women, Religion and Electoral Politics in the Islamic Republic

Thursday, April 15, 2010
BBRG PRESENTS: Transnational Critiques of Gender Mainstreaming

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Ex-Gay, Post-Gay, Still Gay

Latest Updates
Calls for Applications have been posted for programs in the 2010-2011 academic year:
  
Scholars In Residence Program
  Affiliated Scholars Program

BBRG now accepting online donations.