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women's studies  

Definition

  • Women's Studies examines the scholarship and theory on the history, status, contributions, and experiences of women in diverse cultural communities, and on the significance of gender as a social construct and as an analytical category. Women's Studies challenges the gendered knowledge base that was assumed to be universal. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Women's Studies]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-FT35W9WW-V

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