What is women’s studies?
Write down five key points or themes you learned from reading pages 1-38.
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What questions do you have about women’s studies?
Women and Gender Studies as a field of research is generally interested in the following areas:
1. Body Politics
a. Sexual Harassment
b. Sexuality, and Women’s Economic Status
c. Unwanted Pregnancy and its Resolution: Options, Implications
d. Treating Health: Women and Medicine
e. The Sexual Politics of Interpersonal Behavior
2. Relationships, Family, and the Life cycle
a. Gender and Families in the United States: The Reality of Economic Dependence
b. Gender-Role Socialization: Lessons in Femininity
c. Supermoms and Second Shifts: Marital Inequality
d. Motherhood: Contemporary Conflict for women
e. Aging: Women’s resources in later life
3. Work and Occupations
a. Women in the Labor Force
b. Gender differences in Higher Education: Gender Differences in the Status of Students
and Scholars
c. Women in Blue-Collar Occupations
d. Clerical Work: The Female Occupation
e. Professional Women: How Real Are the Recent Gains?
4. Words and Images
a. Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Femal Body
b. Sex, Lies, and Advertising
c. Sexism and the English Language: The Linguistic Implications of Being a Woman
d. Pornography: conflict among feminists
5. Institutions of Control
a. The Revolution for Women in Law and Public Policy
b. A Generation of change for Women in Politics
c. Critical perspectives on women and religion
d. Social reactions to lesbians, spinsters, widows, and nuns
e. Poverty and Welfare for Women
f. Current attitudes toward homeless women
6. Feminism in perspective
a. The history of feminism
b. From suffrage to women’s liberation
c. African-American feminism
d. Women against feminism
e. Misogynists,
f. Mentors, and Male Supports: Men’s Responses to Feminism
7. Feminism and Diversity
a. The experience of minority women in the United States
b. Intersections of race, Gender and Class
c. Black feminism
d. Latina feminism
e. Asian-American feminism
f. Jewish feminism
g. Lesbian feminism
h. Transgendered feminism