scholarly journals What Happened to the Women in Women’s Studies? Rethinking the Role of Women’s History in Gender Studies Classes

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Feitz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Women’S History

Jewish Women's History in the Roman Period: a Task for Christian Theology

1986 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette J. Brooten
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Women’S History

As a teacher, as a scholar, as a dean, and as a churchman, Krister Stendahl has worked for decades to further Jewish-Christian relations and to promote women's studies and women. It is out of gratitude to him that I present these theses, which I see as a continuation of his work.

Feminism and the Education of Women

1976 ◽  
Vol 159 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Florence Howe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
State University ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
Kansas State University ◽  
Women’S History

This essay grew out of an attempt to discover, through a search in the archives of nine colleges and universities, whether curriculum could be found that was not male-centered and male-biased. While the search for curriculum that included women's history and achievements proved fruitless, the research illuminated controlling feminist assumptions behind three phases of women's education: the seminary movement that established secondary education for women; the movement that established elite women's colleges; and the current women's studies movement. The author also reviews some aspects of coeducation — at Oberlin and at Kansas State University — that reflect the first phase. In its first phase, feminists interested in the education of women claimed only that women needed higher education in order to teach young children, either as paid teachers (until they married) or as mothers. The curriculum offered to women was, therefore, different from (and less demanding than) that being offered to men in colleges at the time. Indeed, seminaries could not claim to be colleges for women. In its second phase, feminists interested in the education of women insisted that women could and should study what men did: the curriculum was the “men's curriculum.” Today, we have both tendencies present, along with a third, the seven-year old women's studies movement that for the first time in the history of higher education for women has challenged male hegemony over the curriculum and over knowledge itself. The movement aims to transform the curriculum through the study of women's history, achievements, status, and potential.

Still Walking, Still Brave: Mapping Gender, Race, and Power in U.S. Western History

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen J. Leong
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Western History ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Women’S History

This essay highlights several interdisciplinary works about gender, race, and power in U.S. western history that utilize analytic tools generated by women's studies and women's history and considers how these recent works are charting new pathways for future research about U.S. western women's history. The theory of intersectionality, articulated by black women's studies, has been particularly useful in addressing the complexity of how gender, race, and power have informed women's lives in the U.S. West. However, several of the scholars producing this exciting work do not identify or locate their work as U.S. western women's history. One reason may be the existence of an "American western history imaginary," an ideological construct that currently dominates the field and scholarship. The essay addresses what is at stake in challenging this imaginary for U.S. western women's history.

The Diversity of Women’s Studies and Women’s Histories

Meridians ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-38
Author(s):  
Ramya Sreenivasan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women's History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
State Of The Field

Abstract This review article is a state of the field review, based on six recent monographs and edited volumes published in the United States, India, and England, all pertaining to women’s studies or women’s history in South Asia.

Trends in gender studies within Japanese sociology

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092110053
Author(s):  
Fumika Sato
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Annual Changes ◽  
Number Of Publications

This article gives an overview of the last 20 years of gender studies in the context of Japanese sociology. First, it discusses women’s studies as a predecessor of gender studies and its historical development. Next, it outlines the annual changes observed in the number of publications that included the word ‘gender.’ Then, the article explains the two main tasks that gender studies have pursued – using actual research as examples. After that, the influence that translations of foreign research have had on Japanese gender studies is discussed. Finally, the article points to the three important challenges Japanese gender studies face currently.

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