Word: genderism
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...peer institutions, including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Duke, University of Chicago and NYU, all have programs that include gender and/or sexuality in their titles. Scholarship in women’s studies has in recent decades turned toward an increased focus on the ways in which identities are socially constructed. Theories that today deconstruct the role of gender, race, sexuality and class identity, employ similar approaches as those initially used to explore the role of women. This includes the recognition that gender regulates the behavior of both men and women, and that it is consequently difficult to study women...
Scholarship on women has always included perspectives of gender and sexuality in order to understand the historical and theoretical position of women. It is therefore not a coincidence that when a movement of students and faculty at Harvard tried to gain recognition for gender and sexuality studies as a valid discipline, the majority of the faculty members supportive of the initiative were already affiliated with CDWS...
Some have argued that combining women’s studies with gender and sexuality studies will dilute the two fields, and that it would be a better idea to have two separate committees. While this is a valid concern, the deliberations of the CDWS’s full faculty revealed that this would serve only to hinder the interdisciplinary nature of the field and construct artificial boundaries. After all, when the list of instructors for any new department would be nearly identical to that of the current CDWS, it is clear that the administrative cost would needlessly increase without...
CDWS is committed to enhancing the study of gender and sexuality without compromising students’ ability to engage in a serious study of women’s history or feminist theory. We are confident that in the long run this change will represent more than a semantic shift, but one that allows CDWS to expand its offerings without sacrificing its current strengths...
This name change for womens’s studies is only one more step in a decades-long enterprise of bringing academic recognition to the study of women, gender and sexuality at Harvard and beyond. But we still have a long way to go in order for this change will infuse the spirit as well as the nomenclature of the committee. As the offerings expand in gender and sexuality as well as traditional women’s studies, as the faculty and University support increases and as the field continues to innovate, we look forward to the day when women?...