Copyright (c) 2013 University of Nebraska - Lincoln All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram Recent documents in Information and Materials from the Women's and Gender Studies Program en-us Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:08:49 PST 3600 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/4 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/4 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:30:35 PDT The goal in this work is to provide a brief overview of the development of Black women‟s education throughout American history and based on some pertinent literatures that highlight not only the tradition of struggle pervasive in people of African Descent lives. In the framework of the historical background, three examples will be used to illustrate women's creative enterprise and contributions to the education of African American children, and overall racial uplift. In doing so, I will refer to how those women struggled to set up schools in a totally hostile society where, race, patriarchy, class and gender, interlocking issues combined to make access to educational institutions difficult for a portion of American population up to the early twentieth century through the present.

]]> Safoura Boukari http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/3 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/3 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:51:10 PDT Undergraduate and graduate courses offered through the Women's and Gender Studies Program. WIth descriptions and teaching faculty.

]]> http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/2 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/2 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:45:38 PDT What is LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies?
LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies is the academic study of sexuality. At the heart of the field is the recognition that sexuality is a category of difference all its own, one that bears as much intellectual scrutiny as do race, class and gender. Classes in the field cover a wide range of topics — homosexuality and heterosexuality, queer theory and queer communities, inter-racial relationships and miscegenation laws, pornography debates and obscenity laws, birth control practices and eugenics debates — all of which can be assessed through a variety of disciplinary lenses, including anthropology, English, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, to name just a few. Although people have long been interested in the study of sexuality, LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies has only emerged in the last thirty years, producing some of the most innovative scholarship to date. UNL has been a part of this new intellectual tradition from its earliest days and is now proud to offer a minor in LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies.

]]> http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/1 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/wgsprogram/1 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:43:13 PDT This newsletter announces a name change in our program, from “Women’s Studies” to “Women’s and Gender Studies.” The Women’s Studies faculty voted to change the name of the program after more than a year of discussion and research. It took several more months for the proposal to work its way up the academic hierarchy, but now it is official. The new name better represents the research and teaching interests of many of the faculty and the direction of Women’s Studies nationally. It also represents a commitment to LGBTQ/ Sexuality Studies, now an approved minor which is administered through the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. However, the Program faculty are also adamant that “Women’s Studies” is a major part of our identity, and that many of our courses will remain centered on the lives, experiences, and accomplishments of women. The name change appropriately comes in the 30th year of our program, reflecting our history and looking forward to our future.

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