CGS will be closed from July 23rd to August 5th. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.
Except those days, we are open through Monday to Friday, 11:00am to 5:00pm. Please visit us!

June 25, 2009, 1:18 PM

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(3) Current Interest & Comment

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November 15, 2007, 2:52 PM

The Center for Gender Studies (CGS) will be closed from April 29th to May 7th,2006.
The reading group held every Monday (12:40-13:50) will take place as usual on May 1st at CGS.

April 26, 2006, 2:38 PM

To mark the second anniversary of CGS Online, we redesigned the whole content! The previous version will be closed on April 10 2006. Please visit our new website at http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/cgs/. We'll further
try to improve the design and content so as to make the website more usable and accessible for anybody interested in our activities.

April 11, 2006, 12:57 PM

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies (PGSS) at ICU started in the Spring Term of 2005. Also starting this term is the new foundation class, “Approach to Gender Studies”, in which 15 scholars lecture on the possibilities of gender and sexuality studies in a diverse range of fields, including natural science.

Moreover, on Friday, May 27, CGS will commemorate the establishment of PGSS with a guest lecture, “What Can Gender and Sexuality Studies Do?” by Chizuko Ueno, a professor of Tokyo University and a recognized authority on gender studies.

May 17, 2005, 12:00 AM

The Interdisciplinary Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies provides a　model curriculum for students who wish to create an interdisciplinary major that focuses on issues of gender and sexuality. Human experience is inextricably linked with sex and gender. We enter the world with the biologically defined sex of our bodies and then over the course of our lives become gendered social actors. In doing so, we encounter and engage the wide array of socio-cultural ideas, values and practices that define gender, with its associated ideas regarding masculinity, femininity, and other gender identities. In recent decades scholarly research in multiple disciplines has explored the profound ways in gender and sexuality are constructed and defined in social life and also influence and inform social action. This research has demonstrated not only the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality in social life, but also their critical linkages to such basic everyday issues as access to education, language use, and political participation, or such large scale theoretical issues as inequality, class, power, and nature versus nurture debates.

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April 11, 2005, 12:00 AM

　Did you know that? CGS Card-sized Pamphlet is also a stamp card! If you collect five stamps by participating CGS events, you will get CGS original goods; the canvas tote bag with original badge. It is practical size just good for putting lunch box! You can get on a first-come-first-served basis, so hurry up!!

CGS Staff

October 6, 2004, 12:00 AM

The term “Gender”, which was not very common in a while ago, has been gradually becoming familiar to people today. On the other hand, “Gender” has also received a negative image by mass media. In particular, since the enforcement of Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society, the criticism has been made on the notion of a “Gender Free” ideology. It is argued from the mass media perspective that “Gender Free” is a vicious ideology that that invalidates the importance of fixed gender roles among human beings and dismantles the traditions of Japanese society.

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May 25, 2004, 12:00 AM