women's studies

Or a course in Women’s Studies?

“Going full women’s studies professor today, are we?,” my wife comments appreciatively.

Seward Park’s studies section — which Wood explains is made up of sociology titles as well as “carceral studies, immigration studies, women’s studies, queer studies and race studies” — far outperforms the studies sections of its sister stores in Ravenna and Lake Forest Park.

One effect of this work was “increased awareness that health is political, that health is impacted by race and gender and class and sexuality,” said Sami Schalk, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin.

That means state appropriations should focus more on engineering and business programs, said Shad White, the auditor, and less on liberal arts majors like anthropology, women’s studies and German language and literature.