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Wikipedia is not a dictionary - personally I'm suspicious whether we can get a whole entry out of some of the words from that list. I left them on the page for now so keyword searches will find the page. Comments? -- I was thinking of them as some topics to write pages in this area about. Maybe not all, but many of them could certaintly could be articles. Some of them already are articles, but some of these (e.g. AIDS) don't deal with the topic with the same emphasises as generally encountered in G&SS. G&SS tends to concentrate more on the social aspects of AIDS, for instance, than medical ones; especially as it effects gay people. -- SJK
Should this be renamed List of gender studies topics? — Ashley Y 23:49, 2004 Jun 25 (UTC)
Come to think of it, should this be a category instead? — Ashley Y 08:21, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC)
Surely genital modification and mutilation is pretty obviously of interest to gender and sexuality studies? — Ashley Y 23:31, 2005 Jan 15 (UTC)
I think most people would agree that female genital cutting is an appropriate topic for gender and sexuality studies. If female genital cutting is an appropriate topic for gender and sexuality studies, why shouldn't male genital cutting also be an appropriate topic? -- DanBlackham 09:40, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Control of sexuality is only one of several reasons cited for female genital cutting. Like male circumcision, female genital cutting is done primarily for social and cultural reasons. Another reason cited for female genital cutting is the belief it improves hygiene. It is also sometimes done because the parents believe it is a religious requirement for their daughter to be circumcised.
There are many forms of female genital cutting ranging for genital scarification to infibulation which is the most damaging form. The form of female genital cutting most similar to male circumcision is called sunna circumcision. Sunna circumcision removes the prepuce of a girl's clitoris. Male circumcision removes the prepuce of a boy's penis.
All of the reasons cited for female genital cutting have been cited for male genital cutting, including control of sexuality. Non-religious circumcision started in the United States in the late 1800's in part because doctors thought it would keep boys from masturbating. Although control of sexuality is not a reason cited today for male circumcision, it is one of the reasons the practice was introduced in the United States.
In my opinion both female genital cutting and male genital cutting are appropriate topics for gender and sexuality studies. I understand that some people may feel that listing male genital cutting is not appropriate (especially people from circumcising cultures), but I am surprised there is any opposition to listing female genital cutting. -- DanBlackham 10:32, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
On the one hand: Absolutely absurd. How is genital (i.e. sexual organs of the body) violence/mutilation/alteration not a concern of gender and sexuality studies? It being concerned with body, sex, the sexed body, sexual violence... ? Besides which it just IS studied by those very scholars constituting queer theory, lesbian feminism, feminism (as well as psychoanalysis and anthropology) - hence "gender and sexuality studies."
Neverthless, gender and sexuality studies sounds like the name of a course. I have certainly never come across it as a conceptual terminology - is this a US thing perhaps?. Perhaps better to root under gender studies, feminism, lesbian and gay history, queer theory (and as the good man says sexology) etc.,?? Which do cover - or perhaps should - all of these things???
I'm involved in the update and revision of the Gender Studies article and I was wondering should this page be merged with it. I'm sensitive to the difference between the two fields but I would say that Sexuality studies has a had a major impact on Gender Studies as a field. What would be the general opinion on merging this page into the Gender Studies page?-- Cailil 16:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Many of these items don't seem to have to do with gender and sexuality studies, per se... and it seems like a pretty random list of things that are somehow related to gender and sexuality. I think it's impossible to list everything that has something to do with gender and sexuality... maybe we could limit the list to things that are more academic-y? like queer theory, queer studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, intersection theory (i'm hoping to improve that article soon... it's just a stub), I dunno... any thoughts?
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Wikipedia is not a dictionary - personally I'm suspicious whether we can get a whole entry out of some of the words from that list. I left them on the page for now so keyword searches will find the page. Comments? -- I was thinking of them as some topics to write pages in this area about. Maybe not all, but many of them could certaintly could be articles. Some of them already are articles, but some of these (e.g. AIDS) don't deal with the topic with the same emphasises as generally encountered in G&SS. G&SS tends to concentrate more on the social aspects of AIDS, for instance, than medical ones; especially as it effects gay people. -- SJK
Should this be renamed List of gender studies topics? — Ashley Y 23:49, 2004 Jun 25 (UTC)
Come to think of it, should this be a category instead? — Ashley Y 08:21, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC)
Surely genital modification and mutilation is pretty obviously of interest to gender and sexuality studies? — Ashley Y 23:31, 2005 Jan 15 (UTC)
I think most people would agree that female genital cutting is an appropriate topic for gender and sexuality studies. If female genital cutting is an appropriate topic for gender and sexuality studies, why shouldn't male genital cutting also be an appropriate topic? -- DanBlackham 09:40, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Control of sexuality is only one of several reasons cited for female genital cutting. Like male circumcision, female genital cutting is done primarily for social and cultural reasons. Another reason cited for female genital cutting is the belief it improves hygiene. It is also sometimes done because the parents believe it is a religious requirement for their daughter to be circumcised.
There are many forms of female genital cutting ranging for genital scarification to infibulation which is the most damaging form. The form of female genital cutting most similar to male circumcision is called sunna circumcision. Sunna circumcision removes the prepuce of a girl's clitoris. Male circumcision removes the prepuce of a boy's penis.
All of the reasons cited for female genital cutting have been cited for male genital cutting, including control of sexuality. Non-religious circumcision started in the United States in the late 1800's in part because doctors thought it would keep boys from masturbating. Although control of sexuality is not a reason cited today for male circumcision, it is one of the reasons the practice was introduced in the United States.
In my opinion both female genital cutting and male genital cutting are appropriate topics for gender and sexuality studies. I understand that some people may feel that listing male genital cutting is not appropriate (especially people from circumcising cultures), but I am surprised there is any opposition to listing female genital cutting. -- DanBlackham 10:32, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
On the one hand: Absolutely absurd. How is genital (i.e. sexual organs of the body) violence/mutilation/alteration not a concern of gender and sexuality studies? It being concerned with body, sex, the sexed body, sexual violence... ? Besides which it just IS studied by those very scholars constituting queer theory, lesbian feminism, feminism (as well as psychoanalysis and anthropology) - hence "gender and sexuality studies."
Neverthless, gender and sexuality studies sounds like the name of a course. I have certainly never come across it as a conceptual terminology - is this a US thing perhaps?. Perhaps better to root under gender studies, feminism, lesbian and gay history, queer theory (and as the good man says sexology) etc.,?? Which do cover - or perhaps should - all of these things???
I'm involved in the update and revision of the Gender Studies article and I was wondering should this page be merged with it. I'm sensitive to the difference between the two fields but I would say that Sexuality studies has a had a major impact on Gender Studies as a field. What would be the general opinion on merging this page into the Gender Studies page?-- Cailil 16:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Many of these items don't seem to have to do with gender and sexuality studies, per se... and it seems like a pretty random list of things that are somehow related to gender and sexuality. I think it's impossible to list everything that has something to do with gender and sexuality... maybe we could limit the list to things that are more academic-y? like queer theory, queer studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, intersection theory (i'm hoping to improve that article soon... it's just a stub), I dunno... any thoughts?