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	Gender studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gender studies is a theoretical work in the social sciences or humanities that focuses on issues of sex and gender in language and society, and often addresses related issues including racial and ethnic oppression, postcolonial societies, and globalization.
		Work in gender studies is often associated with work in feminist theory, queer studies, and other theoretical aspects of cultural studies.
		While work in gender studies is principally found in humanities departments and publications (in areas such as English literature and other literary studies), it is also found in social-scientific areas such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender_studies (513 words)

	CTheory.net
		Newton's famous theory of drag proposes 'a double inversion' whereby although ostensibly signalling that the outer appearance is feminine but the essence inside is masculine, it simultaneously symbolises the opposite: that the outside appearance belies masculinity whilst the inner essence is feminine [2].
		Gender theory is fundamentally linked to notions of the body [3], social action [4], and sexual practices [5].
		Cyborg gender is thereby addressed in confused ahistorical double-speak, which ignores both the gendered human genesis of the subject and the bio-cultural foundations of gender theory itself.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=384 (3797 words)

	Migration Information Source - Women and Migration: Incorporating Gender into International Migration Theory
		These gendered responsibilities were believed to explain why women were less likely than men to participate in migration decisions or in the labor force of the host country when they did join their husbands.
		Gender is seen as a core organizing principle that underlies migration and related processes, such as the adaptation to the new country, continued contact with the original country, and possible return.
		Gender relations and hierarchies within the family context affect the migration of women because it is usually within the family that female subordination to male authority plays itself out.
	www.migrationinformation.org /Feature/display.cfm?id=106 (3204 words)

	Feminista! v3n3 - Gender Theory
		Gender theory, as the daughter of feminist theory, is the next step in the feminist research project.
		Gender is the ascribed normative aspect, generally focused around the human concept of sex, a biological, physical division, that extends to a broad social construction, informing, shaping, limiting ways of being, both masculinism and feminism.
		As gender constitutes the most basic division and definition in political societies, i.e., who is defined as being a citizen, who is allowed to vote, hold office, or go to combat, it became increasingly impossible to ignore the gendered aspect of all social sciences.
	www.feminista.com /archives/v3n3/handrahan.html (6834 words)

	GENDER THEORY IN WORLD POLITICS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Here, feminist theory refers to all conceptual approaches that take as their starting point the belief that gender hierarchies are socially constructed and ethically indefensible; whose purpose is to dismantle such hierarchies and aid in women’s empowerment; and whose focus is thus primarily women and gender as it influences women’s status.
		While feminist theory would not be possible without use of gender as an analytical lens, the use of gender theory does not by itself constitute a feminist approach: what is uniquely feminist is the assumption and critique of women’s oppression.
		Feminist theory uses gender as a lens but its focus is on women and its goal is the improvement of their status, however this is controversially defined by various feminist approaches.
	www.isanet.org /archive/carpenter.html (7833 words)

	Gender Theory and Literature: Marking the Territory
		Gender theory, an interdisciplinary approach to cultural studies, focuses on the definitions and fixity of sexual identity.
		Gender theory grew parallel to, and as an offshoot of, feminist theory in the mid-to-late 1980s (Karlyn interview).
		The question of why gender studies is relevant to literature is answered by those critics who use gender as a key to unlock both cultural history and literary meaning by analyzing the role that gender plays--whether visible or not--in texts.
	home.earthlink.net /~nomo1521/id6.html (1507 words)

	Feminist Theory -- An Overview
		Critics of this vein found gender as imprisoning, nor believed that gender had a bearing in the content of writing, which, according to Joyce Carol Oates is actually culture-determined.
		Gender, it could be said, is part of that culture-determination which Oates says serves as inspiration.
		Gender theory proposes to explore "ideological inscription and the literary effects of the sex/gender system," and as many advantages, opening up the literary theory stage and bringing in questions of masculinity into feminist theory.
	www.victorianweb.org /gender/femtheory.html (820 words)

	www.theory.org.uk Resources: Judith Butler
		In her most influential book Gender Trouble (1990), Butler argued that feminism had made a mistake by trying to assert that 'women' were a group with common characteristics and interests.
		In other words, rather than being a fixed attribute in a person, gender should be seen as a fluid variable which shifts and changes in different contexts and at different times.
		Butler argues that we all put on a gender performance, whether traditional or not, anyway, and so it is not a question of whether to do a gender performance, but what form that performance will take.
	www.theory.org.uk /ctr-butl.htm (1031 words)

	Term Paper on Gender Theory
		Gender or Sex: Gender Theory Gender Theory seems to be quite simple on an external level.
		Gender Theory calls for more than just thinking about gender in a very dichotomous way, it entails the separation of sex and gender; essentially dismissing the roles prescribed to a certain sex by which gender category they are associated, thus explaining why women have been oppressed by men throughout …
		Gender Theory has become one of the most popular of all feminist theories because it includes why women have been oppressed on an all inclusive level.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Gender_Theory-28735.html (190 words)

	Girls Tech: Young Women and Gender-specific Preferences
		Gender-schema theory explains that sex is biologically determined and dichotomous, whereas gender is socially constructed and continuous.
		As Bem explained, “gender-schema theory proposes that sex-typing derives in large measure from gender-schematic processing, from a generalized readiness on the part of the child to encode and to organize information — including information about the self — according to the culture’s definitions of maleness and femaleness (1987, p.
		Although the concepts of “sex” and “gender” should not be conflated, and it must be understood that electronic information preferences vary among young women, the goal of this research is to discover what aspects of electronic information resources are most likely to attract and to repel the greatest numbers of young women.
	girlstech.douglass.rutgers.edu /gt_theory.html (350 words)

	GENDER & COMPUTING: Teaching/preaching gender theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Which means that many students attend the class both with their own 'experience-knowledge' and this popular gender-knowledge, both in sharp contrast to today's gender research and its emphasise on gender as a social construction, as well as variation and diversity between women as well as between men.
		The challenge in teaching (preaching) gender theory then seems to be that (some of) the students' (firm) knowledge about gender has to be exchanged for another knowledge about gender, almost as if they have to change their belief system (that's the preaching part...).
		He explains gender as a social construction in a very direct and easily understood way, and he does so by addressing a number of 'normal' (mis)understandings of sex/gender.
	www.genderandcomputing.no /000934.html (580 words)

	Theorizing Gender Fall 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gender theory is here defined as that subset of feminist theory that attempts to define and analyze "gender" as an analytic concept.
		To prepare for our readings in gender theory, we'll sample some founding work in psychoanalysis, marxist, and poststructuralist theory, but our primary purpose throughout the semester will be to understand how "gender" as a concept operates in feminist analyses and debates.
		In addition, we will examine the implications of different metaphorical understandings of how gender operates to circumscribe and define the lives of women and men--gender as "drag," as "force-field," etc. Finally, we will consider how race, gender, and sexuality are related, both as analytical concepts and as social structures.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~hausman/pastcourses/gendertheory_fall03.html (1395 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Gender
		The theory that gender relations are socially constructed categories of meaning has opened up a number of new areas in lesbian, gay, and queer studies.
		Together, sex and gender constitute what Gayle Rubin describes in her influential 1975 essay, "The Traffic in Women," as the sex-gender system, in which "raw biological sex" is transformed into nonsymmetrical, binary gender relations where the masculine occupies the privileged position.
		Despite the importance of this theoretical breakthrough, the resulting emphasis on binary gender relations could not fully account for twentieth-century Western concepts of identity, and in the late 1980s, this dualistic model was challenged both by self-identified feminists of color and by theorists working from an antihomophobic perspective.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/gender.html (681 words)

	2.2 Feminist/Gender Theory
		The heterosexual imaginary: Feminist sociology and theories of gender.
		The symptomatic repetition of identity: Gender and the traumatic gestalt.
		Kimono and the construction of gendered and cultural identities.
	themargins.net /fps/csbib/2.2feminist.htm (493 words)

	Critical Theory
		Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices.
		This is a list of literary and cultural theory sites, giving general theory, classical theory, enlightenment, romantic, 19th, 20th and contemporary resources.
		The Critical Theory Institute provides a locus for the conduct and support of collaborative, interdisciplinary research focused on the theoretical underpinnings of such fields as history, literature, philosophy, art and politics.
	www.queertheory.com /theories/critical/default.htm (557 words)

	Gender studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that Feminist studies be merged into this article or section.
		Discussion of this nomination can be found on the talk page.
		This page was last modified 10:48, 5 September 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender_theory (513 words)

	Gender Theory
		The final thesis is always: Butch, Stone Butch, Femme, and Stonefemme are natural gender expressions that are of the heart, having little to do with appearance or any stereotypical code of behavior.
		Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a new national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society.
		GenderPAC is the national organization working to guarantee every American's civil right to express their gender orientation free of stereotypes, discrimination and violence.
	queertheory.com /theories/gender/Default.htm (750 words)

	Amazon.com: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity: Books: Judith Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result.
		For the most part, feminist theory has assumed that there is some existing identity, understood through the category of women, who not only initiates feminist interests and goals within discourse, but constitutes the subject for whom political representation is pursued.
		This is a densely written but repeatedly rewarding study of the constructions of gender and sex as they relate to women, lesbians and gay men, and, to follow the logic of Butler's argument, all of us.
	amazon.com /Gender-Trouble-Feminism-Subversion-Identity/dp/0415924995 (1522 words)

	Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference: Abstracts
		The changing scenario of gender status in the Chinese Neolithic period indicates that the social and historical context is essential in gender archaeological studies.
		Early gender studies in archaeology often used a modified systems approach, presuming that gender could be analyzed as an individual component working within the larger contexts of past cultures.
		Western culture and gender ideology were transformed from the 19th century into the 20th century by social reformers who conflated and combined the domestic and public spheres to make it acceptable within the dominant gender ideology for women to have public professions.
	www.uwm.edu /~barnold/abstracts.html (7157 words)

	Feminist Theory and Gender Studies in International Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Members of the feminist theory and gender studies section seek to rectify that oversight by exploring "how we think, or do not think, or avoid thinking about gender" (Flax, 1987: 622) when we think about IR.
		Feminist empiricists, for instance, are comfortable using the standards of science to investigate masculine activities in officially gender-blind IR and unacknowledged women's activities in various sectors of the field, e.g., in wars, on global assembly lines, in the peace movement (Stiehm, 1989; Schwartz-Shea and Burrington, 1990).
		Major conferences on gender and international relations have been held at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1988, the University of Southern California in 1989 (Peterson, 1989) and Wellesley College in 1990.
	www.isanet.org /sections/ftgs/femir.html (3094 words)

	Amazon.fr : Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer: Livres en anglais: Riki Wilchins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the core of postmodern theory, particularly its impact on queer and gender studies.
		Nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins combines straightforward prose with concrete examples from LGBT and feminist politics, as well as her own life, to guide the reader through the ideas that have forever altered our understanding of bodies, sex and desire.
		This is that rare postmodern theory book that combines accessibility, passion, personal experience and applied politics, noting at every turn why these ideas matter and how they can affect your daily life.
	www.amazon.fr /Queer-Theory-Gender-Instant-Primer/dp/1555837980 (310 words)

	Anthropology & Gender
		Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era
		An index of articles relating to gender and anthropology from authors in Guatemala and Spain (recommended).
		A muti-national approach with links to critical theory and bibliographic references put together by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
	home1.gte.net /ericjw1/gender.html (596 words)

	Gender Theory - Anne Serene's Trans Reference Site
		Abstract: In theory, transgender is a challenge to the social construction of gender.
		In it is argued that science is often thought of as being beyond the reach of social and political debates.
		In fact, it is argued, there is a complex and subtle interaction that exist between the biological and the social/political that must be understood and reexamined.
	www.humboldt.edu /~mpw1/gender_theory (498 words)

	Global Reproductive Health Forum: Research Library: Gender, Biology, and Technology: Gender Theory: What is Gender? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gender and Sexuality - This page publishes texts which address gender studies and queer studies, with a particular focus upon discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices.
		Introduction to a discussion on how ideas of gender, and subsequently notions of reproduction are changed/affected within the electronic medium of the internet.
		This pamphlet is designed to give heterosexuals and people who are just starting to think of coming out some basic common terms with the gender and sexual identity communities, so that they can speak somewhat intelligently with members of these communities without seriously offending people or appearing totally clueless.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /Organizations/healthnet/gender/topic11.html (350 words)

	Gender
		The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender.
		Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917: University of Chicago.
		Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
	www.unm.edu /~erbaugh/Genderlist.htm (1286 words)

	Literary Criticism and Gender
		The rise of feminist literary criticism is followed along the two main lines of its development, Anglo-American and French feminist thought, with the concepts of gynocritisicm and l’é criture fé minine as the central ones.
		A particular attention is given to the concept of gender, both within theoretical framework, and in concrete analyses of different kinds of texts, where relations between gender and genre are being discussed.
		At the end, an insight into relations of feminist literary theory with deconstruction and postmodernism is given, marking spaces of common interest.
	www.ceu.hu /crc/Syllabi/97-98/Gender/lukic.html (1679 words)

	Gender Theory Readings
		The most far-reaching, path breaking works in gender theory are, and remain:
		Gender Theory course at a campus that is in the process of moving from a
		Butler, J. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subver-sion of Identity.
	research.umbc.edu /~korenman/wmst/gendertheory.html (1101 words)

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