Gender study
Gender studies isterm usedrefertheoretical work insocial sciences or humanities that focuses on issuessexgenderlanguagesociety,often addresses related issues including racialethnic oppression, postcolonial societies,globalization.Workgender studiesoften associatedworkfeminist theory, queer studies,other theoretical aspectscultural studies. While workgender studiesprincipally foundhumanities departmentspublications (in areas such as English literatureother literary studies), italso foundsocial-scientific areas such as anthropology, sociology,psychology.
Some theorists whose workassociatedGender Studies
- Judith Butler
- Hélène Cixous
- Donna Haraway
- Luce Irigaray
- Evelyn Fox Keller
- Gayle Rubin
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
