Women and Gender Studies
Program Overview
Women鈥檚 studies has its roots in the student, civil rights, and women鈥檚 movements of the 1960s and 70s. In its early years the field鈥檚 teachers and scholars principally asked, 鈥淲here are the women?鈥 Today that question may seem an overly simple one, but at the time few scholars considered gender as a lens of analysis, and women鈥檚 voices had little representation on campus or in the curriculum.
Today the field鈥檚 interrogation of identity, power, and privilege go far beyond the category 鈥渨oman.鈥 Drawing on the feminist scholarship of U.S. and Third World women of color, women鈥檚 studies has made the conceptual claims and theoretical practices of intersectionality, which examines how categories of identity (e.g., sexuality, race, class, gender, age, ability, etc.) and structures of inequality are mutually constituted and must continually be understood in relationship to one another, and transnationalism, which focuses on cultures, structures and relationships that are formed as a result of the flows of people and resources across geopolitical borders, foundations of the discipline. (excerpted from National Women鈥檚 Studies Association.)
Women/Gender Studies at East Los Angeles College is an interdisciplinary academic program which aims to expand students鈥 understanding and appreciation of women鈥檚 lives and experiences both historically and in contemporary societies worldwide.
Women/Gender Studies at East Los Angeles College is an interdisciplinary academic program which aims to expand students鈥 understanding and appreciation of women鈥檚 lives and experiences both historically and in contemporary societies worldwide.
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