My guess is it is because there is a need to consolidate and project power. This reminds me of the Black / Afro-American (we want it all but please don't send us back to africa studies) Green revolution that is now happening(the I hate people, lets stop every thing people do party) or the grow your hair long and smoke a reefer studies of the late 70's(damn those French hippys !)... any group that desires power and control has a "studies" at college/university. I think I'll start the white (excuse me...european American) disaffected sarcastic poor males studies...
2007-03-03 09:36:02 · 7 answers · asked by Firemedic 3 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Deidre, have you been living under a rock? Have you never heard of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz? No? Well, she was a nun from New Spain (Mexico) who had the choice between getting married and being a nun. She chose to be a nun because she would be able to study, write, and do all sorts of things that would prevent her from running a useful home. (I'm a mom of two and have NO time to study, write or do things...) She wrote absolutely amazing stuff...beautiful poetry. Okay. This is one woman. Only one! There were many, many, many others. Santa Teresa de Jesus. Jane Austen. The Bronte sisters. Emily Dickinson. Queen Victoria. Queen Isabela. History is literally FULL of women--leaders, artists, what have you.
I probably wouldn't want to learn about disaffected, sarcastic men. I live with one.
I, personally want a Mormon studies class. Then maybe these stupid people who claim that Mormons are polygamist pedafiles, non-Christian, weirdos, blah blah blah can learn that we don't actually have horns, we love Christ, we try to make the world a better place.
2007-03-03 17:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Men's studies is everywhere. Anthropology, sociology, medicine, history, literature, art. Females have been on the perimeters of any studies and there is very little written or any type of history kept of their involvement up until perhaps 50 years ago. Women were considered to be part of the private domain whereas males were part of the public domain and thus were considered to be worth studying.
Information and females is in fact having to be searched out and rediscovered because so little is known. It would be like aboriginal studies or black studies which chooses to rediscover the lost and present it to learn. This is the opposite to what is taught in school as regular curriculum.
2007-03-03 19:05:05 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre O 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is this a question? Society has already been historically built around disaffected white men...no need to study...although it would be an easy, amusing class
2007-03-03 17:43:00 · answer #3 · answered by ☺☻☺☻☺☻ 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who started the Masons ? Were women allowed to attend ? Was it not Fred Flinestone who supported the grand pooh bah, oh and lest we forget the KKK I don't think there were any women under those hoods either...
Who started these cliques in the first place ?
Men of course !
Women started their own groups only because men did such a hack job of it in the first place ...
2007-03-03 17:48:30 · answer #4 · answered by lightwayvez 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Is this a question or a study?
2007-03-03 17:52:50 · answer #5 · answered by Sherif S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because wimmin need some fluffy easy "A" because they suck at math and science.
2007-03-04 00:29:50 · answer #6 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
men have "his"-story.
2007-03-04 01:44:19 · answer #7 · answered by C 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋