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What is Women's Studies?Women’s Studies is an academic discipline that critically evaluates gender from an interdisciplinary perspective and challenges many traditional assumptions and theories about women that have excluded them from positions of power. It examines the practice and expression of gender in different societies and at different historical moments; it explores the various origins and articulations of gender differentiation; it traces the influence of gender expectations on individuals, and it studies the interactions of gender and other differences in social, political, and cultural contexts. Women’s Studies began as an academic field during the 1970s. Students and scholars in many disciplines began to ask questions about the role of women writers, musicians, artists, and so on, and about the social, economic, political, and intellectual structures that had shaped women’s lives. The interdisciplinary nature of Women’s Studies continues and now there is no field, including the sciences and technical fields, which lacks research on women or the influence of gender. What is Women's Studies?
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