Word: gendered
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From first glance at the description of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) in the student handbook, it’s clear that this concentration is trying to do too much: “Cultural and historical differences in femininities and masculinities, transnational sexualities, women writers, gender and media studies, lesbian/gay/bisexual studies, transnational feminisms, gender and environmental movements, philosophies of embodiment, queer theory, women’s history, transgender studies, gender and religion, the political economy of gender, feminist theory, race/class/gender politics, technology and gender, gender and science, and masculinity studies are just a few of the areas...
...ground, the WGS concentration forces together some subjects that don’t have enough in common to warrant coexistence in the same program. In large part, it is the lack of complete cohesion between the separate parts of the concentration’s title—women and gender studies versus studies of sexuality—that is particularly troubling...
...study of sexuality tends to be heavily focused on issues of sexual orientation and its origins and implications, with the aforementioned topics like queer theory and lesbian/gay/bisexual studies falling under its often controversial umbrella. Women and gender studies, on the other hand, touches upon subjects like women’s history and literature, masculinity, and feminism. Obviously, at many points, the study of gender and the study of sexuality will intersect, largely because gender is the main lens through which sexuality is examined in our society. As a result, it can appear difficult, if not impossible, to disengage them into...
...important, however, to recognize that as natural as it may seem to throw the discussions of gender and sexuality into one program, doing so has the potential to force superficial connections between topics whose relation to each other is tenuous at best. In particular, on the women and gender studies end, issues such as women’s suffrage and female contributions in the realm of wars, politics, and science have little, if anything, to do with sexuality, and instead are primarily concerned with the historical influence of gender roles on larger society...
...Conversely, topics that might arise in the study of sexuality, such as same-sex marriage, historical suppression of non-heterosexual lifestyles, and aspects of the more physical and scientific concerns surrounding sexuality, can certainly be well understood without discussion of gender issues...