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women's studies

noun

  1. a program of studies concentrating on the role of women in history, learning, and culture.


women's studies

plural noun

  1. courses in history, literature, psychology, etc, that are particularly concerned with women's roles, experiences, and achievements
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of women's studies1

First recorded in 1970–75
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“You can call it so many things, but you can’t call it poppers,†said Jay Sosa, an associate professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College in Maine and a scholar of the drug.

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Co-chair Sherene Razack, a distinguished professor and Penny Kanner endowed chair in women’s studies, pointed out that her group has published three reports on alleged racist and bias incidents against Arab American, Palestinian American and Muslim American students, staff and faculty at UCLA, including one in February, but has yet to meet with Frenk on the matters.

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Or a course in Women’s Studies?

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“Going full women’s studies professor today, are we?,†my wife comments appreciatively.

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Seward Park’s studies section — which Wood explains is made up of sociology titles as well as “carceral studies, immigration studies, women’s studies, queer studies and race studies†— far outperforms the studies sections of its sister stores in Ravenna and Lake Forest Park.

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