Although feminism is a major development of Gender Studies, there is a fine difference between Women's Studies and Gender Studies. Gender studies "looks at the ways in which societies construct, articulate, and police sexuality" (Munns and Rajan 485). There is more of an emphasis on gender identity and its role in culture as opposed to the biological meaning of gender. And in our culture, women were concerned with shifting the dominance away from men. According to Intro to Cultural Studies, there are five different categories of feminism relating to political powers. "Post-modern feminists are not interested in creating or rediscovering "authentic" female expression, but in showing that social construction of gender involves power relations" (Sardar and Van Loon 144).
The rise of gay and lesbian studies were also prominent in the 19th century, being instituted in education. The Queer Theory is a field of work that "articulates the complex, shifting contemporary alignments of class, race, gender, age, and sexuality in the lives of individuals who frequently face multiple oppression" (Munns and Rajan 467), in which social differences should also be celebrated between social and sexual conditions (Sardar and Van Loon 147).
As time progresses, cultural studies are constantly being integrated in educational systems as well as including difference in gender and how they identify with society.
New Keywords: "Gender"
Because there are still many subcategories of Gender, like gender relations, gender identity, and gender studies, an overall concept is that "it usually denotes the social, cultural, and historical distinctions between men and women..." (p. 140)
Wikipedia: "Gender Studies"
Although this is a rather large yet brief article, it covers a lot of basic and important points about pyschoanalyic theory, theorists, and criticism.
"...Is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. It examines both cultural representations of gender and people's lived experience."
Other- "Gender roles"
This website gives an overview of gender roles in society, about the history, some important people involved in gender roles, etc.
http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/8/Gender-roles.html
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This blog was created by and for students in an Introduction to Cultural Studies class at the University of Washington. Through an investigation of urban experience and representation--in theory, in graphic novels and in our own "readings" of Seattle's University District--we considered the formation and history of cultural studies as an (anti)discipline, with a special emphasis on the questions, "What does cultural studies do, and how do you do cultural studies?"
If you'd like to know more about the class, the blog or our U-District artifact project, please contact Gabrielle Dean: gnodean@u.washington.edu.
If you'd like to know more about the class, the blog or our U-District artifact project, please contact Gabrielle Dean: gnodean@u.washington.edu.
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