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- 1. academic courses in sociology, history, literature, and psychology which focus on the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.
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Interdisciplinary academic field that explores politics, society, media, and history from women's and/or feminist perspectives
Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-econ... Wikipedia