Categoria: Gender
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Dress codes, male gazes
When you tell a girl what to wear (or force her to cover up with an oversized T-shirt), you control her body. When you control a girl’s body—even if it is ostensibly for her ‘own good’—you take away her agency. You tell her that her body is not her own. When you deem a girl’s…
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MIT open courseware
38 undergraduate and graduate women’s and gender courses. In the course of their inquiry, students not only learn how to use gender as a category of analysis, but also reflect on the manifestation of gender in their own lives, leading to a range of personal and intellectual discoveries. Although gender is a central component of…
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Call for abstracts
Gendering Cities, , designing Sustainable Urban Environments for All, aims at advancing a better understanding of the gender dimensions of environmentally related topics within the Grand Challenges included in the new European Research Framework Program Horizon 2020. The conference will be held in Rome, Late September / October 2014. Deadline for sending the abstracts: March 15th 2014.…
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Women’s and Gender Studies
MIT offers 38 undergraduate and graduate courses on women’s and gender studies In the course of their inquiry, students not only learn how to use gender as a category of analysis, but also reflect on the manifestation of gender in their own lives, leading to a range of personal and intellectual discoveries. Although gender is…
