London, United Kingdom

Gender Studies

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: social
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.ucl.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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.
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.
Gender
Virtue cannot be separated into male and female. ... The difference is one of bodies not of souls.
Theodoret of Cyrus, as cited in The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (2012), p. 106
Gender
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, ... then you will enter the kingdom."
Gospel of Thomas, 22
Gender
People are born female or male but learn to be girls and boys who grow into women and men. This learned behaviour makes up gender identity and determines gender roles.
World Health Organisation, "Gender: definitions" at euro.who.int, 2014.
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