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BEIJING, Apr 6, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A Beijing university has announced that Women's Studies will become a college major for the first time, having been given state approval.
Han Henan, professor of Women's Studies at China Women's University, said that although teaching of the subject began in the United States in the early 1970s, no college in China offered a major in this field, China Daily reported Thursday.
The subject studies women from the perspective of differences between the sexes. Han said the curriculum would examine ways that ethnicity, race and sexuality shape representations of women as well as the unbalanced allocation of resources based on gender.
Courses to be offered include Introduction to Women's Studies, Gender and Women's History, Women in Contemporary China, Feminist Methodology and Women's Psychology.
Han said the course has a close relationship with China's social and economic reform, as gender equality still remains a problem in China, especially in the western areas where women are still considered inferior to men.
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