14 Facts About Women's studies

Research practices and methodologies associated with women's studies include ethnography, autoethnography, focus groups, surveys, community-based research, discourse analysis, and reading practices associated with critical theory, post-structuralism, and queer theory.

Women's studies courses are now offered in over seven hundred institutions in the United States, and globally in more than forty countries.

In 1982, a women's studies program was created at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.

Gender Women's studies began to be established in universities in Brazil in the 1980s and continued expanding throughout the 1990s.

Political aims of the feminist movement that compelled the formation of women's studies found itself at odds with the institutionalized academic feminism of the 1990s.

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The field of women's studies continued to grow during the 1990s and into the 2000s with the expansion of universities offering majors, minors, and certificates in women's studies, gender studies, and feminist studies.

The first official PhD program in Women's Studies was established at Emory University in 1990.

In 1990, part-time BAs in Women's Studies launched at the Polytechnic of North East London and at Preston Polytechnic.

Major theories employed in women's studies courses include feminist theory, intersectionality, standpoint theory, transnational feminism, and social justice.

Women's studies began incorporating transnational feminist theory into its curricula as a way to disrupt and challenge the ways in which knowledge regarding gender is prioritized, transmitted, and circulated in the field and academy.

Women's studies acknowledges the lack of agency in which women historically possessed, due to hierarchical positions in society.

Women's studies programs are involved in social justice work and often design curricula that are embedded with theory and activism outside of the classroom setting.

Some women's studies programs offer internships that are community-based allowing students the opportunity to experience how institutional structures of privilege and oppression directly affects women's lives.

Notable women's studies scholars include Charlotte Bunch, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Barbara Ransby.