1. WS →GS →WGS →WGSS → ? Evance Seven Jennifer Joy Allison

2. WS or WGS all over the world http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kor enman/wmst/programs.html Women studies are gradually changed with time, by changing the name of the program/ department/ center to demonstrate their new standpoint and the future trend on this issue.

3. http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about.html The Berkeley Women's Studies Program was founded in 1976. 1980s, the question of GENDER itself. Culture &Social class Racial ethnicity age Increasing globalized context Became a department in the Fall of 1991 In July 2005, as part of a broader revision of the undergraduate curriculum, we officially changed our unit's name to the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. Sexuality

4. Queen’s University 1980s, first Woman Studies course 1994, newly named Institute of Women’s Studies 1999, Department of Women’s Studies Name change: 2009 Woman’s Studies→Gender Studies http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/HistoryofWomensStudiesatQuee ns.htm

5. Rationale for the change Name change has occurred in multiple academic institutions. Naming ourselves GS signals the most recent and cutting edges debates in the field of WS, FS and GS. Pointing an opening up of gender categories. Showing the openness to diverse intellectual approaches to the ways in which gender is constituted in our global world.

6. University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Seven

7. History and Changing Women’s Issue→Academic Women‘s Studies Program→ Gender and Women's Studies Program To meet the expanding interdisciplinary understanding of gender constructions and sexual identities in different fields

8. The University of Kansas First, the diversity of fields forces our motivation to combine them as one. Second, to attract more male students to our major.

9. University of Wisconsin-Madison Women's Studies Program  Department of Gender and Women's Studies “to raise the aspirations of women, expanding their sense of possible future alternatives and opportunities and their own capabilities.” “to enable men to widen their spheres of development for they, too, have been limited by narrow traditional concepts of ‘women’s roles’ and ‘men’s roles.’” http://www.womenstudies.wisc.edu/overview.htm