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Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.[1]

Popular concepts that are related to the field of women's studies include feminist theory, standpoint theory, intersectionality, multiculturalism, transnational feminism, social justice, affect studies, agency, bio-politics, materialism, and embodiment.[2] Research practices and methodologies associated with women's studies include ethnography, autoethnography, focus groups, surveys, community-based research, discourse analysis, and reading practices associated with critical theory, post-structuralism, and queer theory.[3] The field researches and critiques different societal norms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social inequalities.

Women's studies is related to the fields of gender studies, feminist studies, and sexuality studies, and more broadly related to the fields of cultural studies, ethnic studies, and African-American studies.[4]

In 1977, there were 276 women's studies programs nationwide[clarification needed]. The number of programs increased in the following decade, growing up to 530 programs in 1989.[5] Women's studies courses are now offered in over seven hundred institutions in the United States, and globally in more than forty countries.[6]

History[]

In 1956, Australian feminist Madge Dawson took up a lectureship in the Department of Adult Education at Sydney University and began researching and teaching on the status of women. Dawson's course, "Women in a Changing World", which focused on the socio-economic and political status of women in western Europe, becoming one of the first women's studies courses.[7] The first accredited women's studies course in the U.S was held in 1969 at Cornell University.[8] After a year of intense organizing of women's consciousness raising groups, rallies, petition circulating, and operating unofficial or experimental classes and presentations before seven committees and assemblies, the first women's studies program in the United States was established in 1970 at San Diego State College (now San Diego State University).[9][10] In conjunction with National Women's Liberation Movement, students and community members created the ad hoc committee for women's studies.[11] The second women's studies program in the United States was established in 1971 at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. It was mostly formed through many efforts by women in the English department, administration and within the community.[12] By 1974, San Diego State University faculty members began a nationwide campaign for the integration of the department. At the time, these actions and the field were extremely political.[13] Before formalized departments and programs, many women's studies courses were advertised unofficially around campuses and taught by women faculty member - without pay - in addition to their established teaching and administrative responsibilities.[14] Then, as in many cases today, faculty who teach in women's studies often hold faculty appointments in other departments on campus.[15]

The first scholarly journal in interdisciplinary women's studies, Feminist Studies, began publishing in 1972.[16] The National Women's Studies Association (of the United States) was established in 1977.[17]

Around the 1980s, universities in the U.S. saw the growth and development of women's studies courses and programs across the country while the field continued to grapple with backlash from both conservative groups and concerns from those within the women's movement about the white, existentialist, and heterosexual privilege of those in the academy.[18] The political aims of the feminist movement that compelled the formation of women's studies found itself at odds with the institutionalized academic feminism of the 1990s.[19] As "woman" as a concept continued to be expanded, the exploration of social constructions of gender led to the field's expansion into both gender studies and sexuality studies.

The field of women's studies continued to grow during the 1990s and into the 2000s with the expansion of universities offering majors, minors, and certificates in women's studies, gender studies, and feminist studies. The first official Ph.D. program in Women's Studies was established at Emory University in 1990.[20] As of 2012, there were 16 institutions offering a Ph.D. in Women's Studies in the United States.[21][22] Since then, UC Santa Cruz (2013),[23] the University of Kentucky-Lexington (2013),[24] Stony Brook University (2014),[25] and Oregon State University (2016)[26] also introduced a Ph.D. in the field. In 2015 at Kabul University the first master's degree course in gender and women's studies in Afghanistan began.[27] Courses in Women's Studies in the United Kingdom can be found through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.[28]

Theoretical traditions and research methods[]

Students of Women and Gender Studies University of Haifa

Early women's studies courses and curricula were often driven by the question "why are women not included? where are the women?".[29] That is, as more women became more present in higher education as both students and faculty, questions arose about the male-centric nature of most courses and curricula. Women faculty in traditional departments such as history, English, and philosophy began to offer courses with a focus on women. Drawing from the women's movement's notion that "the personal is political", courses also began to develop around sexual politics, women's roles in society, and the ways in which women's personal lives reflect larger power structures.[30]

Since the 1970s, scholars of women's studies have taken post-modern approaches to understand gender and its intersections with race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, age, and (dis)ability to produce and maintain power structures within society. With this turn, there has been a focus on language, subjectivity, and social hegemony, and how the lives of subjects, however they identify, are constituted. At the core of these theories is the notion that however one identifies, gender, sex, and sexuality are not intrinsic, but are socially constructed.[31]

Major theories employed in women's studies courses include feminist theory, intersectionality, standpoint theory, transnational feminism, and social justice. Research practices associated with women's studies place women and the experiences of women at the center of inquiry through the use of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. Feminist researchers acknowledge their role in the production of knowledge and make explicit the relationship between the researcher and the research subject.[3]

Feminist theory[]

Feminist theory refers to the body of writing that works to address gender discrimination and disparities, while acknowledging, describing, and analyzing the experiences and conditions of women's lives.[32] Theorists and writers such as bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alice Walker added to the field of feminist theory with respect to the ways in which race and gender mutually inform the experiences of women of color with works such as Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (hooks), In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (Walker), and Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Collins). Alice Walker coined the term womanism to situate black women's experiences as they struggle for social change and liberation, while simultaneously celebrating the strength of black women, their culture, and their beauty.[33] Patricia Hill Collin's contributed the concept of the "matrix of domination" to feminist theory, which reconceptualizes race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression that shape experiences of privilege and oppression.[34]

Woman in Women's Studies area of the library

Intersectionality[]

Intersectionality is a way of understanding and analyzing the complexity in people, human experiences, and society.[35] Associated with the third wave of feminism, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality has become the key theoretical framework through which various feminist scholars discuss the relationship of between one's social and political identities such as gender, race, age, and sexual orientation, and received societal discrimination.[36] Intersectionality posits that these relationships must be considered in order to understand hierarchies of power and privilege, as well as the effects in which they manifest in an individual's life.[37] Though events and conditions of social and political life are often thought to be shaped by one factor, intersectionality theorizes that oppression and social inequality are a result of how powerful individuals view the combination of various factors; emphasizing that discrimination is accounted for by power, not personal identity.[35][36]

Standpoint theory[]

Standpoint theory, also classified as feminist standpoint theory,[38] developed in the 1980s as a way of critically examining the production of knowledge and its resulting effects on practices of power.[39] Standpoint theory operates from the idea that knowledge is socially situated and underrepresented groups and minorities have historically been ignored or marginalized when it comes to the production of knowledge. Emerging from Marxist thought, standpoint theory argues for analysis that challenges the authority of political and social "truths".[40] Standpoint theory, assumes that power lies solely within the hands of the male gender as the process of decision making in society is constructed exclusively for, and by men.[38] An example of where standpoint theory presents itself in society is through the processes of political analysis, as this field of study is almost entirely controlled by men.[38] Furthermore, from a Marxist viewpoint, Karl Marx had expressed a notion in which believed that those in power have the inability to understand the perspectives of those whom they hold power.[38] Providing that standpoint theory acknowledges the male incapability of understanding the oppression in which women face in society.

Transnational feminist theory[]

Transnational feminism is concerned with the flow of social, political, and economic equality of women and men across borders; directly in response to globalization, neoliberalism, and imperialism.[41] Women's studies began incorporating transnational feminist theory into its curricula as a way to disrupt and challenge the ways in which knowledge regarding gender is prioritized, transmitted, and circulated in the field and academy.[42] Transnational feminist theory is continually challenging the traditional divides of society, in which are crucial to ongoing politics and cultural beliefs.[43] A key recognition advanced from the transnational feminist perspective is that gender is, has been, and will continue to be, a global effort.[44] Furthermore, a transnational feminist perspective perpetuates that a lack of attention to the cultural and economic injustices of gender, as a result of globalization, may aid in the reinforcing of global gender inequalities; though, this can only come about when one occupies globally privileged subject positions.[44]

Social justice[]

Since its inception and connection with the women's movement, activism has been a foundation of women's studies. Increasingly social justice has become a key component of women's studies courses, programs, and departments. Social justice theory is concerned with the fight for just communities, not on the individual level, but for the whole of society.[45] Women's studies students engage in social justice projects, although some scholars and critics are concerned about requiring students to engage in both mandated activism and/or social justice work.[46] Women's studies not only focus on concepts such as domestic violence, discrimination in the workplace, and gender differences in the division of labor at home, but gives a foundation for understanding the root cause of these concepts, which is the first step to making for a better life for women.[47]

Agency[]

Agency may be defined as the capability to make choices individually and freely.[48] An individual's agency may be restricted due to various social factors, such as gender, race, religion and social class.[48] From a feminist standpoint, agency may be viewed as an attempt to equalize the one-sided oppression that has characterized first wave feminism.[49] Feminists use agency in attempt to create new forms of autonomy and dependence from the reshaping of gender relations that is taking place in global society.[49] Women's studies acknowledges the lack of agency in which women historically possessed, due to hierarchical positions in society. Feminists are actively making an effort to increase gender equality, as it may result in expanding social agency for all women.[49]

Materialism[]

Materialist theory derives from 1960's and 1970's social work in feminism.[50] Materialism possesses significant ties to the Marxist theories of history, agency, and ideology; though, may be distinguished through the incorporation of language and culture to its philosophy.[50] Materialism poses questions to both social analytics and social relations, in which may be found in the material conditions of any given society.[50] In addition from examining from a gender standpoint, material conditions are studied in relation to realistic aspects of women's lives.[50] A key aspect in which materialist feminists have revealed these relations is from the feminist perspective, claiming that social conditions of gender are historically situated, as well as subjected to intervention and change.[50] Materialist feminism specifically focuses on social arrangements that accentuate the role of women—notably the aspects of family, domesticity, and motherhood.[50] Materialism analyzes gendering discourses in which promote women's marginalization; Thus, one of the most influential aspects of materialist feminism is its attentiveness with questions of ideology and how they relate to history and agency.[50]

Pedagogies[]

In most institutions, women's studies courses employ feminist pedagogy in a triad model of equal parts research, theory, and praxis. The decentralization of the professor as the source of knowledge is often fundamental to women's studies classroom culture.[51] Students are encouraged to take an active role in "claiming" their education, taking responsibility for themselves and the learning process.[52] Women's studies programs and courses are designed to explore the intersectionality of gender, race, sexuality, class and other topics that are involved in identity politics and societal norms through a feminist lens. Women's studies courses focus on a variety of topics such as media literacy, sexuality, race and ethnicity, history involving women, queer theory, multiculturalism and other courses closely related. Faculty incorporate these components into classes across a variety of topics, including popular culture, women in the economy, reproductive and environmental justice, and women's health across the lifespan.[53]

Women's studies programs are involved in social justice work and often design curricula that are embedded with theory and activism outside of the classroom setting. Some women's studies programs offer internships that are community-based allowing students the opportunity to experience how institutional structures of privilege and oppression directly affects women's lives. Women's studies curricula often encourage students to participate in service-learning activities in addition to discussion and reflection upon course materials. However, Daphne Patai, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has criticized this aspect of women's studies programs, arguing that they place politics over education, stating "the strategies of faculty members in these programs have included policing insensitive language, championing research methods deemed congenial to women (such as qualitative over quantitative methods), and conducting classes as if they were therapy sessions."[54] Since women's studies students analyze identity markers including gender, race, class, and sexuality, this often results in dissecting institutionalized structures of power. As a result of these pedagogies, women's studies students leave university with a tool set to make social change and do something about power inequalities in society.[55]

Notable women's studies scholars include Charlotte Bunch, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Cherríe Moraga, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Barbara Ransby.

See also[]

Notes[]

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  5. ^ "A National Census of Women's Studies Programs" (PDF). NORC Project: 25. December 2007.
  6. ^ Berger, Michele Tracy; Radeloff, Cheryl (2015). Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World. New York: Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-415-83653-1.
  7. ^ "Ardent warrior for women's rights". 2003-07-31.
  8. ^ Kahn, Ada P. (2006). The Encyclopedia of Stress and Stress-related Diseases (2nd ed.). Facts on File. p. 388. ISBN 978-0816059379. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  9. ^ * Salper, Roberta (November 2011). "San Diego State 1970: The Initial Year of the Nation's First Women's Studies Program". Feminist Studies. 37 (3): 658–682.
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  12. ^ Chinyere Okafor citing from The Center for Women's Studies' papers at WSU
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  15. ^ Berger, Michele Tracy; Radeloff, Cheryl (2015). Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World. New York: Routledge. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-415-83653-1.
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  17. ^ "NWSA". nwsa.org. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
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  28. ^ "Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, United Kingdom". UCAS. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
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  30. ^ Ginsberg, Alice E., ed. (2008). The evolution of American women's studies: reflections on triumphs, controversies, and change (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 69. ISBN 9780230605794. OCLC 224444238.
  31. ^ Levin, Amy K. (2007). "Questions for A New Century: Women's Studies and Integrative Learning" (PDF). www.nwsa.org. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  32. ^ Kolmar, Wendy K.; Bartkowski, Frances (2013). Feminist theory: a reader (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. p. 2. ISBN 9780073512358. OCLC 800352585.
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  34. ^ Collins, Patricia Hill (2009). Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment (2nd ed.). New York. ISBN 9780415964722. OCLC 245597448.
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  37. ^ Carastathis, Anna (2014-05-01). "The Concept of Intersectionality in Feminist Theory". Philosophy Compass. 9 (5): 304–314. doi:10.1111/phc3.12129. ISSN 1747-9991.
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  39. ^ Harding, Sandra G. (2004). The feminist standpoint theory reader: intellectual and political controversies. New York: Routledge. p. 2. ISBN 978-0415945004. OCLC 51668081.
  40. ^ Hekman, Susan (1997). "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited". Signs. 22 (2): 341–365. doi:10.1086/495159. JSTOR 3175275. S2CID 13884397.
  41. ^ Moghadam, Valentine M. (2011). "Transnational Feminisms". In Lee, Janet; Shaw, Susan M. (eds.). Women worldwide: transnational feminist perspectives on women. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. p. 15. ISBN 9780073512297. OCLC 436028205.
  42. ^ Parisi, Laura (2012). "Transnational". In Orr, Catherine Margaret; Braithwaite, Ann; Lichtenstein, Diane Marilyn (eds.). Rethinking women's and gender studies. New York: Routledge. p. 326. ISBN 9780415808316. OCLC 738351967.
  43. ^ Minoo (1999). Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-2322-8.
  44. ^ Jump up to: a b Shome, R. (2006). "Transnational Feminism and Communication Studies: The Communication Review, 9(4), 255–267". doi:10.1080/10714420600957266. S2CID 145239698. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  45. ^ Capeheart, Loretta; Milovanovic, Dragan (2007). Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780813541686. OCLC 437192947.
  46. ^ Johnson, Jennifer L.; Luhmann, Susanne (2016). "Social Justice for (University) Credit? The Women's and Gender Studies Practicum in the Neoliberal University. (Report)". Resources for Feminist Research. 34 (3–4): 40.
  47. ^ "Women's and Gender Studies". Texas Tech University.
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  49. ^ Jump up to: a b c Mcnay, L (2003). "Agency, Anticipation and Indeterminacy in Feminist Theory. Feminist Theory, 4(2), 139–148". doi:10.1177/14647001030042003. S2CID 143574634. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  50. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Hennessy, R.; Ingraham, C. (1999). "Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives: Canadian Journal of Communication".
  51. ^ Shrewsbury, Carolyn M. (Fall 1987). "What is feminist pedagogy?". Women's Studies Quarterly. 15 (3–4): 6–14. JSTOR 40003432.
    • See also: Shrewsbury, Carolyn M. (Fall 1993). "What is feminist pedagogy?". Women's Studies Quarterly. 21 (3–4): 8–16. JSTOR 40022001.
  52. ^ Rich, Adrienne (2005). "Claiming an Education". In Anderson, Chris; Runciman, Lex (eds.). Open Questions. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's. pp. 608–611.
  53. ^ Berger, Michele Tracy (2015). Transforming Scholarship (Second ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 35–40.
  54. ^ Patai, Daphne (January 23, 1998). "Why Not A Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education?". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
  55. ^ Bubriski, Anne; Semaan, Ingrid (2009). "Activist Learning vs. Service Learning in a Women's Studies Classroom". Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. 7 (3): 91–98.

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Further reading[]

  • Berkin, Carol R., Judith L. Pinch, and Carole S. Appel, Exploring Women's Studies: Looking Forward, Looking Back, 2005, ISBN 0-13-185088-1 OCLC 57391427
  • Boxer, Marilyn J. (1998). When Women ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5834-5. OCLC 37981599.
  • Carter, Sarah; Ritchie, Maureen (1990). Women's Studies: A Guide to Information Sources. London, England and Jefferson, NC: Mansell and McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7201-2058-5. OCLC 20392079.
  • Committee on Women's Studies in Asia (1995). Changing Lives: Life Stories of Asian Pioneers in Women's Studies. New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 978-1-55861-108-5. OCLC 31867161.
  • Davis, Angela Y. (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete?, Open Media (April 2003), ISBN 1-58322-581-1
  • Davis, Kathy; Evans, Mary; Lorber, Judith, eds. (2006). Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies. London, England; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN 978-0-7619-4390-7. OCLC 69392297.
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne (1992). Myths of gender: biological theories about women and men. New York: BasicBooks. ISBN 0-465-04792-0.
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2000). Sexing the body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-07714-5.
  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2012). Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415881456.
  • Gardey, Delphine (September 2016). "'Territory Trouble': Feminist Studies and (the Question of) Hospitality". differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 27 (2): 125–152. doi:10.1215/10407391-3621745.
  • Grewal, Inderpal and Caren Kaplan, An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, ISBN 0-07-109380-X OCLC 47161269
  • Griffin, Gabriele (2005). Doing Women's Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences. London, England: Zed Books in association with the University of Hull and the European Union. ISBN 978-1-84277-501-1. OCLC 56641855.
  • Ginsberg, Alice E. The Evolution of American Women's Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies and Change (Palgrave Macmillan: 2009). Online interview with Ginsberg
  • Griffin, Gabriele and Rosi Braidotti (eds.), Thinking Differently : A Reader in European Women's Studies, London etc. : Zed Books, 2002 ISBN 1-84277-002-0 OCLC 49375751
  • Howe, Florence (ed.), The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from Thirty Founding Mothers, Paperback edition, New York: Feminist Press 2001, ISBN 1-55861-241-6 OCLC 44313456
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