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Feminist Studies refers to:

• Feminist Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate program investigating the significance of gender in all areas of human life. Feminist analysis is based on the assumption that gender is a crucial factor in the organization of our personal lives and our social institutions. It focuses on how gender differences and gender inequality are created and perpetuated.

• The Feminist Studies program use feminist perspectives to expand and reevaluate th e assumptions at work in traditional disciplines in the study of individuals, cultures, social institutions, policy, and other areas of scholarly inquiry.

• Feminist Studies is an interdisciplinary, critical exploration of how some of the most salient categories of difference — such as, gender, race, class, sexuality, religion and nation — vary in time and place. It exposes students to the growing body of knowledge that falls under the broad rubric of 'feminism,' including feminist theory and its critics, and it seeks to revise the findings of traditional disciplines to include this new knowledge and variety of feminist methodologies.

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The Feminist Studies major exists for those students whose academic and professional career interests would best be served by a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach. Feminist Studies students can double major in any discipline. Paired majors with Communication, English, History, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, and Theatre are available. Communication is the process of exchanging information, usually via a common protocol. ... Look up English in Wiktionary, the free dictionary As an adjective, English refers to anything from or pertaining to England. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: History For other senses of this word, see history (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Students who wish to emphasize the interdisciplinary concentration on the experiences and perspectives of women also may select Feminist Studies as a minor. Students can combine a Feminist Studies minor with any major. This minor is recommended for students who are interested in careers in management, personnel, education, communications, law, affirmative action administration, and the social services. Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Human Resources has at least two meanings depending on context. ... The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication, generally seen as a mixture between media studies and linguistics. ... Law (from the late Old English lagu of probable North Germanic origin) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide...

Links

• http://www.stanford.edu/dept/femstudies/
• http://www.southwestern.edu/academic/fst/

See also

• Journal of Feminist studies: http://www.feministstudies.org/

• Feminist philosophy, feminist studies

1. Australian Feminist Studies
2. Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
3. The European Journal of Women's Studies
4. Feminism & Psychology
5. Feminist Legal Studies
6. Feminist Review (See also.)
7. Feminist Studies
8. Feminist Theology
9. Feminist Theory
10. Gender & History
11. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation
12. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
13. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
14. LABYRINTH: International Journal for Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
15. Die Philosophin: Forum für feministische Theorie und Philosophie
16. Radical Philosophy
17. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
18. Women and Performance
19. Women's Philosophy Review
20. Women's Studies