A Gender Studies Concentration offers students
the opportunity to explore traditional disciplines
through an interdisciplinary perspective
that focuses on the significance of sex as
a social construct. Students study the unique
contributions of women and men to society,
science, humanities, and the arts; the importance
of gender and gender roles in a variety of
social and historical contexts; and new scholarly
methods and theories arising from interdisciplinary
study. The concentration encourages students
to examine historical and contemporary representations
of women and men in religion, in the arts
and literature, in social and political theory,
and in the sciences. It fosters scholarly
investigation that recognizes gender as an
empirical reality. While the immediate goal
of Gender Studies is to stimulate intellectual
curiosity and to provide new strategies for
investigation, the long term goal is to help
Davidson men and women function freely and
fairly in the world.
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