Gender Studies
The Gender Studies Department at LdM aims to enhance a cultural understanding of gender structures and representations, and how these impact history, policy, and society through scholarly research. LdM’s dedicated faculty and mentors endeavor to promote students’ sensitivity to gender issues and its many facets including identity, race, class, and disability. In this way, the Department seeks to empower students in their daily lives and to inspire them to contribute to contemporary struggles for social justice.
Courses are designed to introduce students to the intersectional analysis of gender through social, cultural, religious and political structures. The range of topics spans from an introduction to the field of gender studies to a critical reflection of the theory of evolution. Among other themes, students have the chance to engage in a historical examination of four-centuries of the Medici through the lens of the Medici women, as well as some of the most prominent women in 20th-Century European and American fiction.
The curriculum wants students to critically confront specific gender practices through investigating areas such as feminism, the politics of representation, gender and work, gender and health, and media. Core courses provide students with the ability to criticize traditional social, cultural, religious and political structures for gender bias. Guided visits to religious places viewed through a female lens allow for the unveiling of gender stereotypes found in novels, history, and religious texts. Students learn to apply methods derived from multiple disciplines to the study of gender in a global multicultural context.
The Gender Studies Department at LdM aims to enhance a cultural understanding of gender structures and representations, and how these impact history, policy, and society through scholarly research. LdM’s dedicated faculty and mentors endeavor to promote students’ sensitivity to gender issues and its many facets including identity, race, class, and disability. In this way, the Department seeks to empower students in their daily lives and to inspire them to contribute to contemporary struggles for social justice.
Courses are designed to introduce students to the intersectional analysis of gender through social, cultural, religious and political structures. The range of topics spans from an introduction to the field of gender studies to a critical reflection of the theory of evolution. Among other themes, students have the chance to engage in a historical examination of four-centuries of the Medici through the lens of the Medici women, as well as some of the most prominent women in 20th-Century European and American fiction.
The curriculum wants students to critically confront specific gender practices through investigating areas such as feminism, the politics of representation, gender and work, gender and health, and media. Core courses provide students with the ability to criticize traditional social, cultural, religious and political structures for gender bias. Guided visits to religious places viewed through a female lens allow for the unveiling of gender stereotypes found in novels, history, and religious texts. Students learn to apply methods derived from multiple disciplines to the study of gender in a global multicultural context.