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...Afsenah Najmabadi, chair of women’s studies, presented the proposal to the Faculty yesterday, stressing the changes that have taken place within women’s studies...
...Women, gender and sexuality are each their own domain of intellectual challenge,” said Najmabadi. “Each continues to pose questions, encourage fresh scholarship and inform one another...
...intertwined enough, she said, that “they cannot be studied one without the other.” It is for this reason, said Najmabadi, that the committee wants to combine the fields of women, gender and sexuality studies, rather than beginning a new committee to address the latter...
...committee, which has about 12 concentrators per year, is planning several short-term changes, but further expansion will be dependent upon receiving more money and faculty, Najmabadi said after the meeting...
...Najmabadi named two concerns she heard at last week’s Committee on Undergraduate Education meeting, where the proposal was first presented. First, there was the issue of clarity—that the terms “gender” and “sexuality” might be too academic for some...