What exacty is "WOMENS STUDIES"?

Question

is this section for feminists or what?

Answer 1

Women's Studies: An insular environment in which a bunch of lezzers and social rejects blather on endlessly about "male paradigms" and pretend that s*x differences are "learned".

And the taxpayer funds this.

Yahoo's is just the popular version of it. (Thank God we're not paying for it)

Answer 2

Its basically a Feminism section but most of the people in our section are sexist men (fat old ugly f**t bags). So the gender and womens studies section is basically a sexist section, well more likely.

Answer 3

lol, you are so begging it, i bet you cant sell this one!!!

good try though

Answer 4

This section is for anyone,its not exclusive to just feminists or other women.

Women's studies is studies about women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_s...

Answer 5

Women seem to be very complicated so we need this section to ask questions about them.

lol

Answer 6

p**n.  No I'm kidding.  The study of women's behavior and psychology.

Answer 7

anyone can study women's studies, and, in fact, many men teach it nowadays.

since women are only in about 3% of textbooks, women's studies offers a way to study about gender, sociology topics, discrimination, etc.   it's the same for ethnic studies.

Answer 8

Women's Studies is an academic field of studies found on the University level.  It is part history, political science and economics.  Women's Studies covers the period of history and the events of the women's movement into legal protections for their unalienable human rights.  Feminism, as an offshoot of humanism, addressed women's rights when women found themselves locked out of the Universities and governmental bodies in which legal protections for human rights are forged.  Humanism for men rose as men fought Master / Slave pardigms and formed democracies and constitutions to protect fundamental human rights in the face of tyrants, monarchs, dictators, fascists, conservatives and religious fanatics.  As every segment of humanity rose into their rights, there was bloodshed and violent revolution.  Men have been gutting each other with bayonets over their human rights violations for quite some time.  BUT, when women rose into legal protections and the social consciousness rose to include women as part of the concept "We the People" this last century, there was no bloodshed.  That's historically important.  And, historically, that enormous political rise of an entire 50% of humanity (women) into legal protections for their rights suddenly after tens of thousands of years of exploited, abused, oppressed second-class citizenship is an extremely important scholarly subject.  

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstim...

Politically, women's studies examines the legal events, justice systems and cultural responses effecting women's rise into legal protections and examination of current  human rights violations internationally of women's rights. Also, women's studies politically examines how best to restructure society to better accomodate women rather than women having to "make-do" with social visions designed to better serve men only.  

http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

Economically, women's studies examines the impact of human rights violations made against women and the effect of that bigotry on economic stability.  The World Bank and the U.N.'s Millennium Goals and affirmative action are examples of economic interventions being instituted by governments and big business to stabilize the highly inter-dependent global economy by reducing poverty and empowering females.  

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

The "Gender" component of this YA category is an area of anthropological and psychological examination of fashionable subjective cultural roles, courtship / marriage / family customs that have oppressed women and maintained the Master / Slave morality within male-female relationships.  Many men have psychological issues including misogyny, Indentity vs Role Confusions stage of adolescent development, presexual-confrontational issues, "mommy" male-entitlement issues, rage over legal entities interfering with their right to beat or rape their property, etc.  Unfortunately, they got dumped in on this women's studies site rather than their questions showing up over in psychology category, for example, where their emotional issues could be better addressed.

http://www.epica-awards.com/pages/result...

Answer 9

Actually, wouldn't "gender studies" alone be sufficient? Last I looked, woman was one of the two genders.

Answer 10

Feminism.

Answer 11

Check out the april's question about same issue.

Answer 12

I used to support feminsm until I studied two undergrad modules and started to see how incredibly biased it is in presentation of the truth. Women's Studies promotes the view that women are basically nice people, but who have been the victims throughout history at the hands of men. Men are basically bad, according to feminism.

Up until I found all of this out I thought that feminism and Women's Studies was about promoting equality between men and women - how naive I was.