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Dr. Karen Prager, Gender Studies Program
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Our Mission |
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To place gender at the center of scholarly analysis. |
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To study how gender fundamentally shapes our history and culture, in ways we
often overlook. |
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To highlight gender as a driving force in social life for both women and men. |
Our Goals |
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To examine gender as a system of ideas defining masculinity and femininity, delineating differences between the sexes, and regulating expressions of sexuality. |
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To provide a rich understanding of gender as a social construction that intersects with class, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and sexual identity. |
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To integrate insights about gender from the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and the arts, and to use gender as a way to interrogate the boundaries between these existing bodies of knowledge. |
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To examine the lives and experiences of groups which have been underrepresented in traditional academic work -- e.g., women, ethnic and religious minorities, gays and lesbians, the poor and working class. |
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To acquaint students with the fundamental methodologies of women’s and gender studies. |
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