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Women's Studies in Arts & Sciences
takes new name By Andy Clendennen The Program in Women's Studies in Arts & Sciences has a new name. It is now the Program in Women and Gender Studies. Linda J. Nicholson, Ph.D., the Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies and History in Arts & Sciences, and director of Women and Gender Studies, proposed the name change in January after a discussion of this issue by the executive committee of the program. Nicholson and the other members of the committee saw this name change as a reflection of both the times and the changing curriculum within the department. "Many scholars have come to recognize that understanding women's lives requires a focus on men's lives as well; they have thus come to make prominent the analytic category of gender," Nicholson wrote in her proposal. "This recognition is reflected at Washington University in the fact that the program here now offers such courses as 'Local Genders, Global Transfor-mations'; 'Topics in Gender and Judaism: Gender and Sexuality in Judaism'; 'Gender and Labor Politics in East Asia'; and 'Gender and Citizenship.' "Moreover, Women's Studies scholars have also been examining the specificities of men's lives and experiences. The curriculum at Washington University includes the courses 'Masculinities' and 'Men in Relationships.'" While there isn't a change in philosophy within the department, and the courses will remain the same, the name change reflects a wider acceptance of the encompassing nature of the program here and at other top colleges and universities. Both Northwestern University and the University of Chicago's departments are simply "Gender Studies." Yale University's is "Women and Gender Studies"; Cornell University's is "Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies"; and Rice University's program is "The Program for the Study of Women and Gender. |
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