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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (12617)	4/29/2001 6:35:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Classics are defined by the people in power. Right now those people, in the West, are still mostly male and mostly white X, I was doing a bit of research myself this morning. When I was in college, they didn't have black studies or women's studies so I checked a few universities to see what the curricula looked like. It makes a lot of sense to me that schools would offer classes oriented around women, particularly in literature and sociology programs. If you offer 19th century French novelists, it makes sense to me to offer, say, 20th century female novelists. What doesn't make sense to me is a major in women's studies. These programs draw upon the sociology classes and the literature classes that, presumably, would be offered anyway and adds courses specifically designed for the women's studies programs, which seem like a hodgepodge to me. I don't know why anyone would want to major in women's studies unless one wanted to teach it or perhaps be a writer about women's issues. For the latter, you could just take the literature classes as part of an English major and the sociology classes as electives. The same would be true for social workers in training. So what is the point of a women's studies program? Do you know or can you guess? Karen