Women's and Gender Studies Program
Date of this Version
Spring 2005
Citation
Women's Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln NEWSLETTER SPRING 2005
Abstract
Since this is my last column as director of Women's Studies, I want to highlight some important evolutions in the program as I step down in August. At the beginning of this semester, after considerable discussion, the faculty voted to change our name to Women's Award from Judith Hart and Gender Studies Program. This change is consistent with other programs around the country. (The name change is in progress but is not yet official). As faculty and students have discussed this change over the past two years, we have recognized that this is not simply a cosmetic change. Instead it marks our intention to expand the scope of the program with an inclusive emphasis that has been emerging in our courses and to more intentionally include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies and the categories of gender, masculinity, and sexuality in our scholarship and teaching. At the same time, we affirm the program's emphasis on scholarship that informs our understanding of women's experiences.
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