WS →GS →WGS →WGSS → ?

EvanceSevenJenniferJoyAllison

WS or WGS all over the worldWS or WGS all over the world

• http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html

• Women studies are gradually changed with time, by changing the name of the program/ department/ center to demonstrate their new standpoint and the future trend on this issue.

http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about.html

• The Berkeley Women's Studies Program was founded in 1976.

• 1980s, the question of GENDER itself.

Culture &Social class

Racial ethnicity

age

Increasing globalized context

• Became a department in the Fall of 1991

•In July 2005, as part of a broader revision of the undergraduate curriculum, we officially changed our unit's name to the Department of Gender and Women's Studies.

Sexuality

Queen’s UniversityQueen’s University

• 1980s, first Woman Studies course

• 1994, newly named Institute of Women’s Studies

• 1999 , Department of Women’s Studies

• Name change: 2009• Woman’s Studies→Gender

Studies

http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/HistoryofWomensStudiesatQueens.htm

Rationale for the changeRationale for the change• Name change has occurred in

multiple academic institutions.• Naming ourselves GS signals the

most recent and cutting edges debates in the field of WS, FS and GS.

• Pointing an opening up of gender categories.

• Showing the openness to diverse intellectual approaches to the ways in which gender is constituted in our global world.

University of Illinois at University of Illinois at ChicagoChicago

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

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History and ChangingHistory and Changing

• Women’s Issue→Academic Women‘s Studies Program→ Gender and Women's Studies Program

• To meet the expanding interdisciplinary understanding of gender constructions and sexual identities in different fields

The University of KansasThe University of Kansas

• First, the diversity of fields forces our motivation to combine them as one.

• Second, to attract more male students to our major.

University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

• Women's Studies Program

Department of Gender and Women's Studies • “to raise the aspirations of women, expanding

their sense of possible future alternatives and opportunities and their own capabilities.”

• “to enable men to widen their spheres of development for they, too, have been limited by narrow traditional concepts of ‘women’s roles’ and ‘men’s roles.’”

http://www.womenstudies.wisc.edu/overview.htm