Append the word “critical” to an academic field of study and voilà, the field comes across as cutting-edge and au courant. Nor are critical studies programs confined to the most elite campuses. To ...

Women’s and Gender Studies have its roots in the student, civil rights, and women’s movements of the 1960s and 70s. In its early years the field’s teachers and scholars principally asked, “Where are ...

Gloria Chacón is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is an affiliated faculty in Latin Amercian Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Critical ...

The move meant WGS would have its own full-time faculty, a chair reporting directly to the dean and more money for programming. Faculty celebrated the milestone as a sign their work-and their place on ...

On June 1, Texas Christian University will close its stand-alone gender studies and race and ethnic studies departments and fold the majors and courses into the English Department, university leaders ...

This course introduces students to basic concepts, terms, and definitions in the study of gender and sexuality from global and interdisciplinary perspectives. It teaches students to critically ...

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