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Sussex History Students for Gender Equality

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Robbie
12 years ago

no

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Anonymous
12 years ago

More feminist focus in AmStuds is also needed

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Catherine K
12 years ago

Sisters before Misters!!

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Gina Ah
12 years ago

Its 2014. Women are 51% of the population. You should try to keep up.

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Izzi
12 years ago

Gender inequality is a huge aspect of society and university, this is a great way to tackle the implicit reflections of our patriarcle society

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Ben Perkins
12 years ago

Im a geography student and disappointed to here this about another department

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Freya
12 years ago

This is a fantastic idea. I cannot believe it has not been addressed before now. History needs to take lead from the other departments.

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Mirjana Vilic
12 years ago

Behind every great man lies a great woman.

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Oliver Bennathan
12 years ago

I study English lit. and we have similarly patronising women's weeks. We often distinguish feminist studies as if women weren't relevant otherwise...

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Kerri Comerford
12 years ago

really in this day and age is this possible?

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Jane Traies
12 years ago Featured

I am currently a Gender Studies student at Sussex, but I am also a historian, and I find the backwardness of the History department at this university both shocking and depressing. Time to change.

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Tim Hitchcock
12 years ago Featured

I was really surprised by the lack of gender in the course. I would expect it to be embedded in every subject, as well as being represented in separate modules at all levels. I know I cannot understand the past or the present without interrogating gender (both feminities and masculinities, in patriarchy), and don't see how we can expect our undergraduates to do so.

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Tim Hitchcock
12 years ago

Gender is central to understanding the human experience.

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Emily Danvers
12 years ago Featured

I think this is really important. I was proud to do my MA supervised by a feminist historian and if I'd have chosen Sussex I may have not been so lucky. Feminist history provides a really important challenge to the male-stream historiography as well as allowing us to ask questions about the role of gender in shaping ideas and identities of the past.

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Grazia De Michele
12 years ago

There's much more to history than white male presidents and generals

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Megan
12 years ago

Equality.

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Sandeep Sandhu
12 years ago Featured

We pretend to be all open minded and lefty but frankly we only ever learn what left leaning European men thought, especially in core modules.

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Emma Pavans de Ceccatty
12 years ago

Let's embrace the open ideologies on which the University of Sussex was founded!

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Minnie Chopra
12 years ago

the appeal of history is misunderstood, if the significance and contribution of women is taken out of the context in which one ought to look into as a historian