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Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and Equality Policies

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⇑Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and Equality Policies at University of Salamanca

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish

Subject area: social

University website: www.usal.es

Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Doctor

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Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e., the state of being male, female, or an intersex variation), sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender identity. People who do not identify as men or women or with masculine or feminine gender pronouns are often grouped under the umbrella terms non-binary or genderqueer. Some cultures have specific gender roles that are distinct from "man" and "woman," such as the hijras of South Asia. These are often referred to as third genders.

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Gender Studies

Gender studies is a field for interdisciplinary study devoted to gender identity and gendered representation as central categories of analysis. This field includes women's studies (concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics), men's studies and queer studies. Sometimes, gender studies is offered together with study of sexuality.

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Equality

We all subscribe to the principle of religious liberty and toleration and equality of rights. This principle is in accordance with the fundamental law of the land. It is the very spirit of the American Constitution. We all recognize and admit that it ought to be put into practical operation. We know that every argument of right and reason requires such action. Yet in time of stress and public agitation we have too great a tendency to disregard this policy and indulge in race hatred, religious intolerance, and disregard of equal rights. Such sentiments are bound to react upon those who harbor them. Instead of being a benefit they are a positive injury.

Calvin Coolidge "Ways to Peace," Arlington (May 31, 1926) in Foundations of the Republic: Speeches and Addresses p. 436.

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Equality

Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.

Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, June 1932. Quoted in William T. Blackstone, The Concept of Equality, Burgess Publishing Co., 1969 (p. 145); also in Omar Dahbour and Micheline Ishay, The Nationalism Reader,Humanity Books, 1995.

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Equality

For some must follow, and some command
Though all are made of clay!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kéramos (1878), line 6.

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