Women's studies places women's experiences and lives at the center of study, and draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in examining topics such as social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as age, race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.
(From: Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings (6th ed.) by Susan M Shaw and Janet Lee, Rod Library UNI Stacks HQ 1180 W689 2014.)
