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WGS  :-- interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, gender, and feminism; involves the study of gender as a central aspect of human exisistence WGS focus  :-- focuses on the ways women and other feminized bodies experience discrimination and oppression Goal o...

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WGS


 :-- interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, gender, and

feminism; involves the study of gender as a central aspect of human exisistence




WGS focus


 :-- focuses on the ways women and other feminized bodies experience discrimination

and oppression




Goal of WGS


 :-- provide an academic framework and broad based community for inquiry about the

impacts of gender practices on social, cultural, and political thought and behavior; also to

provide advocacy and work toward social change




Androcentrism


 :-- putting men at the center and relegating women to outsiders in society




Original manifestation of WGS


 :-- the emergence of women's studies programs and departments in response to the

absence,misrepresentation, and trivialization of women in the higher education

curriculum




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Making women subjects of study involved two strategies that together resulted in changes in the

production of knowledge in higher education


 :-- First, it re balanced the curriculum. Second, the integration of women as subjects of

study resulted in a transformation of traditional knowledge




Women's studies origin


 :-- has its origins in the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s known as the

second wave women's movement




Second wave


 :-- period of social activism from the 1960s through the 1980s that addressed formal and

informal inequalities associated, for example, with the workplace, family, sexuality, and

reproductive freedom




First wave


 :-- mid nineteenth century women's rights and suffrage




Women's studies was influenced by


 :-- American studies and ethnic studies programs of the the late 1960s




Two aspects of the women's movement helped establish women's studies




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 :-- a commitment to personal change and to societal transformation




SDSU


 :-- the San Diego State University approved a women's studies department, the first in

the United States, and a curriculum of 11 courses




National Women's Studies Association


 :-- first convention held in 1979




phrase 'the personal is political'


 :-- used to explain how things taken as personal or idiosyncratic have broader social,

political, and economic causes and consequences




intersectionality


 :-- involves the ways all people's experiences of gender are created by the coming

together of multiple identities like race, ethnicity, social class, and so forth




Equal Pay Act of 1963


 :-- sought equal pay for equal work




Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964




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