"Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analyzing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. (...) Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, coincided with the rise of deconstruction."
A focus on the intersection of gender and identity in comparative studies, exploring how they affect social hierarchies, cultural norms, and social movements across different regions.
Gender and Sex: This topic explores the difference between gender and sex, as well as how they are socially constructed and reinforced differently across cultures.
Intersectionality: The concept of intersectionality examines how multiple identities (such as race, class, sexuality, etc.) intersect and interact to influence experiences of gender and identity.
Feminism: This topic covers the history and different waves of feminism, as well as how feminist theory and activism have influenced understandings of gender and identity.
Masculinity: Masculinity studies explore the construction of masculinity and how it relates to power dynamics and gender inequality.
Queer Theory: This topic examines the experience and expression of non-heterosexual identities, as well as the ways in which homosexuality and LGBTQ+ identities are constructed and shaped by society.
Transgender Studies: Transgender studies explore the experiences and identities of individuals who do not conform to traditional gender norms, including the social, legal and medical implications of transgender identity.
Globalization and Gender: This topic examines how gender relations are influenced by globalization, including the impact of global economic systems on gender inequality.
Colonialism and Gender: Colonialism has played a significant role in shaping gender relations in many cultures, and this topic explores how colonialism and imperialism have influenced understandings of gender and identity.
Postcolonialism and Gender: This topic relates to how gender identity is negotiated and constructed in postcolonial societies that encounter both modernity and tradition.
Orientialism and Gender: This topic covers gender representations of the Western world's fascination with an exotic and idealized Orient.
Gender and Violence: Gender-based violence and abuses of human rights including sexual harassment.
Intersection between narrative and gender: In the way the narrative is used for the creation or annihilation of gender-centric stereotypes.
Gender and language: How language affects gender perception or specific uses of gender pronoun.
Social media and gender: Social platform and gender, how the technology is being used or abused to perpetrate gender stereotypes or bias.
Gender and politics: Political engagements, political representation and political spaces based on gender.
Male: Refers to the biological sex of a person who identifies as male.
Female: Refers to the biological sex of a person who identifies as female.
Transgender: Refers to individuals who identify with a gender that differs from their biological sex.
Non-binary/ genderqueer: Refers to individuals who do not identify as exclusively male or female. They may identify as both or neither gender.
Intersex: Refers to individuals born with biological variations that result in ambiguous genitalia, reproductive organs, or chromosomes.
Two-Spirit: A term that originated from Indigenous North American communities that typically refers to individuals who identify as having both masculine and feminine spirits.
Queer/questioning: Refers to individuals who are still exploring their gender and/or sexual orientation.
Cisgender: Refers to individuals whose gender identity matches the biological sex they were assigned at birth.
Agender: Refers to individuals who do not identify with any gender.
Genderfluid: Refers to individuals whose gender identity fluctuates between male, female, or non-binary.
"Disciplines that frequently contribute to gender studies include the fields of literature, linguistics, human geography, history, political science, archaeology, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cinema, musicology, media studies, human development, law, public health, and medicine."
"Gender studies also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, social class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality."
"In gender studies, the term 'gender' is often used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity, rather than biological aspects of the male or female sex."
"However, this view is not held by all gender scholars."
"Gender is pertinent to many disciplines, such as literary theory, drama studies, film theory, performance theory, contemporary art history, anthropology, sociology, sociolinguistics, and psychology."
"However, these disciplines sometimes differ in their approaches to how and why gender is studied."
"In politics, gender can be viewed as a foundational discourse that political actors employ in order to position themselves on a variety of issues."
"Feminist theory of psychoanalysis, articulated mainly by Julia Kristeva and Bracha L. Ettinger, and informed both by Freud, Lacan and the object relations theory, is very influential in gender studies."
"The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies."
"Gender studies also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, social class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality."
"Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, coincided with the rise of deconstruction."
"Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, coincided with the rise of deconstruction."
"Gender studies also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, social class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality."
"Disciplines that frequently contribute to gender studies include the fields of literature, linguistics, human geography, history, political science, archaeology, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cinema, musicology, media studies, human development, law, public health, and medicine."
"Gender studies is also a discipline in itself, incorporating methods and approaches from a wide range of disciplines."
"Many fields came to regard 'gender' as a practice, sometimes referred to as something that is performative."
"Gender studies also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, social class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality."
"Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, coincided with the rise of deconstruction."
"Feminist theory of psychoanalysis, articulated mainly by Julia Kristeva and Bracha L. Ettinger, and informed both by Freud, Lacan and the object relations theory, is very influential in gender studies."