Wahoo for Gender Studies programs worldwide!

Indiana University, Gender Studies

<< Gender Studies may be best understood as an evolution from the Women's Studies programs founded in the 1960's and after. In 1997, the name of Indiana University Bloomington's program was changed to recognize formally its more comprehensive attention to women, men, and various aspects of gender.  ...

The Process of Changing the Name From Women's Studies to Gender Studies:

The Director of the Gender Studies program, on the behalf of the faculty, penned a memo to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences providing a rationale for the change of name on August 29, 1997.  [and so on. Easy peasy.] ... Our goal is to develop new approaches to knowledge about gender-related issues, and to transform traditional disciplines and fields of study. >>

http://www.iub.edu/~gender/html/women-or-gs.html

New York University, Gender and Sexuality Studies

I love it! Through the Search feature on the internal Gender and Sexuality Studies site, “Women’s Studies” produces no matches.

Several years back on the NYU site, I had found this statement: "women's studies has now moved on to an attempt to rethink and reevaluate all of human experience through the lens of gender."  And we see that has happened fully at NYU.

http://genderandsexuality.as.nyu.edu/page/home

Wabash College, A Liberal Arts College for Men

<< Area of Concentration in Gender Studies

Wabash College is committed to preparing its students for leadership and service in a diverse and changing society. As part of that commitment, the Area of Concentration in Gender Studies affords students the opportunity to gain a firm grounding in an interdisciplinary field that investigates the social, cultural, and biological factors that constitute femininity, masculinity, and sexual identity. >>

http://www.wabash.edu/academics/bulletin.cfm?site_code_id=26

Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, Gender Studies

<< Gender's meaning changes. In other words, the culturally constructed idea of what sex difference means is unstable and is often renegotiated over time and from place to place. To study gender is to study a central category of identity that shapes basic structures such as:

... • the ways in which gender is represented in art, literature, and popular culture

... • the production of knowledge itself  >>

http://www.newschool.edu/lang/subpage.aspx?id=16636

Central European University, Department of Gender Studies

<< The Department of Gender Studies at CEU is one of the most developed and sophisticated departments of its kind in the world. Unlike many gender studies programs that rely on affiliated faculty based in other departments, our department has its own faculty and curriculum. We are unique in offering an MA and Ph.D., as well as other degree and non-degree options for study. Additionally, gender as it relates to other structures of power and identities (class, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, able-ness, etc.) is always forefronted in our curriculum and in our many scholarly exchanges in and out of the classroom. With students and faculty coming from over twenty different countries, contemporary issues around globalization, nationalism, EU policy, cultural identity, etc. are woven into the scholarly and social life of the department in rich and fascinating ways. >>

http://www.gend.ceu.hu/about.php

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Innovations in Gender Study

Linkoping, Sweden:

<< How to facilitate /gender aware/ organizational innovations?

Today there is an extensive research on how gender is constructed in organizations. Research that show how the social constructions of gender become intertwined within the everyday organizational life (Acker 1992; se also Gunnarsson et al. 2003; Wahl et. al 2001). This research also argues that the social constructions of gender limit organisations ability to bring about development and innovations.

Despite the extensive research available on how gender affects organizations this knowledge has not yet been applied and used in development work in organizations (Meyerson & Colb 2000). By using gender theory in joint learning processes with organizational members, new and more gender aware and sustainable organizational innovations can be developed.

When inequality is considered to be unacceptable, making it necessary to organize the everyday organisational life in different ways, new innovations can emerge. That is the development of new gender aware ways of organizing things, with support from gender theories, can contribute to innovations. A gender aware organisation can therefore be seen as an innovation in itself. >>

http://www.liu.se/genusforum/Konferens/How+to+facilitate+%252Fgender+aware%252F+organizational+innovations%253F?l=en&sc=true

Susanne Andersson

http://www.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=12116&a=54051

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