ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>TravellingConcepts.net: Gender Studies</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style1 {font-size: 18px} .style3 {font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif} a:link {color:#993300;text-decoration:none;} a:visited {color:#993300;text-decoration:none;} a:hover {color:#ff6600;text-decoration:underline;} a:active {color:#ff6600;text-decoration:underline;} --> </style> </head> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" > <div align="center"> <BR> <TABLE BORDER="5" WIDTH="779px" HEIGHT="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" BGCOLOR="ffffff"> <tr> <td> <BR> <h3>Gender Studies</h3> <HR> <table><tr><td width="35%" valign="top"> <P><B>click on author's name<BR>to read their paper</B></P> <a href="holm1.html" title="">Ulla M Holm</a><br /> </td> <td width="55%"> <P><B>indicative quote</B></P> <br> <DIV align="left"> <P> "Tentatively I understand gender studies today  seen from the Swedish context  as an umbrella term for an interdiscipline in transit.... Several women s studies departments/centres [in Sweden] have now changed their name to  gender studies .... In Göteborg we use gender studies both strategically and critically as an umbrella concept for an intersectional, dynamic, multi- and interdisciplinary field of research and education in transit. Educationally, the field includes: women s studies, critical studies on men, feminist (cultural) studies, homo/queer studies, postcolonial feminist studies, feminist intersectional studies& More broadly, the concepts of gender and gender studies can in Sweden be said to be what W.B Gallie (1956:121) characterizes as essentially contested concepts." <em>Ulla M Holm</em></P> <BR> &nbsp; <BR> </td> <TD width="10%" > &nbsp; </TD> </tr></table> </body> </html>