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Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

2006

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Women's And Gender Studies Newsletter, Spring 2006 May 2006

Women's And Gender Studies Newsletter, Spring 2006

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

This newsletter announces a name change in our program, from “Women’s Studies” to “Women’s and Gender Studies.” The Women’s Studies faculty voted to change the name of the program after more than a year of discussion and research. It took several more months for the proposal to work its way up the academic hierarchy, but now it is official. The new name better represents the research and teaching interests of many of the faculty and the direction of Women’s Studies nationally. It also represents a commitment to LGBTQ/ Sexuality Studies, now an approved minor which is administered through the Women’s …


Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Sexuality Studies Apr 2006

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Sexuality Studies

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

What is LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies?
LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies is the academic study of sexuality. At the heart of the field is the recognition that sexuality is a category of difference all its own, one that bears as much intellectual scrutiny as do race, class and gender. Classes in the field cover a wide range of topics — homosexuality and heterosexuality, queer theory and queer communities, inter-racial relationships and miscegenation laws, pornography debates and obscenity laws, birth control practices and eugenics debates — all of which can be assessed through a variety of disciplinary lenses, including anthropology, English, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, …


Course Description Booklet -- Women's And Gender Studies -- Summer And Fall 2006 Mar 2006

Course Description Booklet -- Women's And Gender Studies -- Summer And Fall 2006

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

Undergraduate and graduate courses offered through the Women's and Gender Studies Program. WIth descriptions and teaching faculty.