Top Research Papers on Gender Studies

Dans cet article, l'A analyse trois ouvrages introductifs aux concepts, theories et recherches concernant la sexualite et les etudes sur le genre: Jane Pilcher et Imelda Whelehan, 50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies, London: SAGE Publications 2004; Jo Eadie, Sexuality: A Glossary, London: Arnold 2004; Amy S. Wharton, The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004

Cross-Appointed Faculty Airton, L., Baines, B., Burfoot, A., Butler, A., Castleden, H., Davies, J., Dubinsky, K., Goebel, A., Hanson, L., Hosek, J., King, S.J., Kobayashi, A.L., Kukreja, R., Lahey, K.A., Lee, E-Y., LevineRasky, C., Lord, S., MacDonald, E., Moriah, K., Mullings, B., Naaman, D., Pande, I., Pegley, K., Power, E., Prouse, C., Rewa, N., Rivera, M., Robinson, D., St-Amand, I., Thompson, P., Van Anders, S., Varadharajan, A., Walker, B., Xavier, M.S.

The Gender Studies Program at Pacific is a thriving interdisciplinary consortium of faculty and students committed to both a curricular and cultural environment supportive of the study of gender. We are interested in how gender intersects with definitions of nationality, race, ethnicity, and class; and how gender identities are constantly redefined over time. By exploring the relationship between gender identity and cultural meaning, we prepare students to think comparatively, structurally and critically about their experiences and impact on the world. The dialogue we foster among the liberal ...

Gender und gesellschaftlicher Wandel Jeweils ausgehend von einem aktuellen Ereignis wird anschaulich in die Grundlagen der Gender Studies eingeführt. Dabei wird deutlich, dass Diskussionen über das Thema ‚Gender‘ seit jeher das gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Selbstverständnis des Menschen prägen. Die Verhältnisse der Geschlechter, sowie ihre theoretische und praktische Neuverhandlung, sind dabei sowohl Spiegel wie Antrieb gesellschaftlichen Wandels.

These papers from the first three years of the Oxford seminar on Women in Antiquity appear almost a decade after it began, in 1985. The seminar continues, now renamed Gender in Antiquity. The subject continues, less embattled than in 1985; but, as the editors point out (xiv), this does not mean that women's studies are 'integrated into a curriculum that recognises the problems of gender'. It remains to be seen what difference ' gender studies' will make, and what curriculum could replace the safely segregated Women Option. The editors appear sceptical about women's history, that is, about the ...

At Mount Holyoke, gender studies grew out of women’s studies, with its commitment to uncovering the realities of women’s lives, understanding the nature of women’s oppression, and charting paths to significant social change. Building on this foundation, gender studies encompasses investigations into the very nature of gender; its intersection with other forms of difference and power such as class, race, nation, sexuality, and species; and its intimate connection with myriad forms of knowledge and social practice, from scientific investigation to artistic creation and performance.

As a full-time administrator who directs a Center for Teaching and Learning, I do not get to teach as often as I would like.  At my institution, I teach as an adjunct and will, on occasion, fill in for faculty members who are on sabbatical.  When I can teach I take the opportunity to try out new ideas, pedagogical methods, and new curriculum in my courses.  In spring 2012, I was offered the opportunity to teach Introduction to Gender Studies, which is a twice-weekly, face-to-face course taught at the 100-level.  The course is capped at 30 students and is comprised of a mix of students from all...

If gender studies is to serve as a helpful guide, it must abandon its invented dualisms of sex and gender, nature and nurture, embodiment and social construction. Gender sociologists need to study the way human beings actually live rather than the way they wish we would live.

Legal Gender Studies, die sich mit der geschlechterkritischen Analyse des Rechts befassen, sind inzwischen ein etablierter und ausdifferenzierter Forschungsbereich. Sie umfassen neben übergreifenden Grundlagenuntersuchungen Detailanalysen zu spezifischen Einzelfragen, die alle Gebiete des Rechts betreffen können. Einen umfassenden Überblick über die Legal Gender Studies vermag der Schwerpunkt dieser Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie deshalb nicht zu geben. Vielmehr greift er einige aktuelle Themen auf: Leonie Steinl untersucht die Frage, ob geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt gegen Frauen ei...

Abstract: Gender discrimination still exists in India, even with significant progress made in certain areas. It can take many different forms, such as unequal access to education, unequal compensation for work of equal value, and deeply rooted cultural customs and practices. Gender-based violence, including domestic abuse and sexual harassment, still affects a lot of women. In addition to experiencing pervasive discrimination, members of the LGBTQ+ community also encounter social and legal obstacles that keep them from exercising their rights and being accepted. Gender discrimination remains a...

Klassische Medien wie Rundfunk, Film und Fernsehen sind ebenso wie die „Neuen Medien“ Internet oder Computerspiele längst Gegenstand der Geschlechterforschung. Dieses Lehrbuch macht mit Begriffen, Theorien und Problemen des Feldes vertraut und befähigt Studierende, dies auf aktuelle Phänomene anzuwenden. Die Autorinnen stellen theoretische Modelle der Geschlechterforschung vor und beschreiben ihre Anwendung in der Medienforschung. Zentrale Begriffe werden erläutert und Fragen zur methodischen Anlage von Gender Media Studies diskutiert. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele verdeutlichen den spezifischen ...

These two anthologies provide startling examples of just how far feminist literary criticism has come in the last twenty years. In its earliest U.S. incarnation, feminist literary criticism either took on men's fantasies about women, as did Mary Ellmann's 1968 Thinking about Women, or else explored the achievements of women writers, seeking, as Patricia Meyer Spacks did in 1972, a Female Imagination, or constructing a tradition of Literary Women, as Ellen Moers did in 1976. These early examples of the genre were all resolutely about women (even when their explicit subject was images of women)....

Gender and Women’s Studies examines the gendered diversity of human experience. It uses the lens of gender to explore stratification, colonization, power relationships and cultural stereotypes, and it encourages a sense of empowerment through an examination of commonality and diversity. Through an interdisciplinary program of courses, students will explore the role of gender and its practical implications for their basic life experiences. Students will extend their learning beyond the classroom through community and university engagement and social action.

The gender and women’s studies curriculum is an interdisciplinary program that incorporates recent research done on women and gender. Gender and women’s studies combines the scholarly traditions of each field in new and productive ways to develop a culture of critical thinking about sexuality, gender, race, and class. Courses in gender and women’s studies investigate the experience of women in light of the social construction of gender and its meaning across cultures and historic periods. Gender construction is explored as an institutionalized means of structuring inequality and dominance. The...

Proceedings of a conference organised by the Gender Studies Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the University of Florence and in association with ATHENA (EU-funded Socrates Thematic Network Project for Women's Studies in Europe), held at the European University Institute on 2 April 2001

The Department of Women and Gender Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts degree, a minor, an undergraduate certificate in global gender and sexuality studies, and a graduate certificate for students enrolled in another disciplinary master's or doctoral degree program. The interdisciplinary field of women and gender studies offers students rigorous and flexible programs of study that examine women, gender and sexuality in relation to race, class, ability, nation and empire, among other variables. Students explore how gender and sexuality intersect with structures of power in a range of cultural, hi...

chastity in some of the local churches, producing a hazardous confluence. A piece I wrote on women in South Korea who resisted the pressure to get married will be appearing in a volume on marriage resistance. And I?ve been enjoying the return to in-person teaching.

Faced these questions of justness and objectivity of law from feminism,we should explore what gender the law is and the possible trend of law by the path of feminism jurisprudence and critical jurisprudence which come into being in the western sociology of law since the 80s of the 20th century.By breaking through the barrier of dualism with postmodernism,we can know what the gender of law ought to be.On the basis of surpassing the dualism established by modern enlightenment,the postmodern feminist legal theory point out the future of law after the subject is reconstructed.

The symposium on ‘Transnational Bodies’ which was recently held in Amsterdam to commemorate the upcoming anniversary of the European Journal of Women’s Studies was remarkable in many ways, but what left me feeling just a little cranky was a remark made by one of the speakers.

The main purpose of this article is to broaden U.S. scholars' awareness of the similarities and differences of gender literature in another part of the world. In providing this partial review of gender scholarship in India, the authors hope to foster critical reflection on the inequities of global knowledge production and consumption and the role of U.S. academic institutions and scholars in this project. The article is written not by scholars who are based in India but by those who are based in U.S. academies. Given their location, linguistic and cultural competencies, and scholarly expertise...