Women’s studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order 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-economic class, and disability.
Popular concepts that are related to the field of women’s studies include feminist theory, standpoint theory, intersectionality, multiculturalism, transnational feminism, social justice, affect studies, agency, bio-politics, materialism’s, and embodiment. 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. The field researches and critiques different societal norms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social inequalities.
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Podcasts
- WomenWhoStamp – @WomenWhoStamp
YouTube
- Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center: Women on Holocaust Stamps
- Looking at Stamps: Episode 208 – Women Vote 19th Amendment
- Smithsonian National Postal Museum: African American Women on Postage Stamps
- Ted Talks Stamps: Episode 9 – Women In German History
