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Introduction to womens and gender studies instructor. Available for general education, f comparative cultural studies. This course is designed to introduce students to the field of womens studies. Friday, week 2, in class, typed and numbered using peggy mcintoshs privilege list as a model, write a privilege list of your own. Womens studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place womens lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender. Since this is an introductory course, it is important to explore a range of perspectives. At whitman, the gender studies program brings together womens and feminist studies, mens and masculinity studies, studies of gender itself, and lgbtqueer studies. A teaching resources collection contains 29 syllabi, lesson plans, and other instructional materials. About this book introduction to women, gender, sexuality. Womens and gender studies department university of new hampshire 203 huddleston hall 73 main street durham, nh 03824. The goal of introduction to gender studies is encapsulated in the title. Read more about introduction to women, gender, sexuality studies.
It includes womens studies concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics, mens studies and queer studies. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions and debates in womens and gender studies, both historical and contemporary. This book highlights major concepts that organize the diverse work in this field. A thorough introduction to the teaching of womens studies in the contemporary academy, winkler and dipalmas edited book is actually much much more.
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