Gender Studies (CSS): Introduction to Gender Studies
I. Introduction to Gender Studies What is women studies? Answer: According to National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) , women’s studies is an academic field which interrogates the identity, power, and privilege of not just category “women” but it goes beyond it. The field has made the conceptual claims, and theoretical practices of intersectionality which examines how categories of identity (e.g., sexuality, race, class, gender, age, ability, etc.) and structures of inequality are mutually constituted and must continually be understood in relationship to one another, and transnationalism , which focuses on cultures, structures and relationships that are formed as a result of the flows of people and resources across geopolitical borders, foundations of the discipline . National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), USA Established in 1977, the National Women's Studies Association has as one of its primary objectives promoting and supporting the pro...






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