Educating New Generations: Standpoints in Women’s and Gender Studies and Implications for the Inclusion of LGBTQ Studies in Italian University Courses

Prandelli, Marta; Meraviglia, Greta; Testoni, Ines and Biglia, Barbara (2020). Educating New Generations: Standpoints in Women’s and Gender Studies and Implications for the Inclusion of LGBTQ Studies in Italian University Courses. Journal of Homosexuality, 67(7) pp. 990–1012.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2019.1582219

Abstract

It should not be surprising that in Italy, one of the latest European countries to recognize same-sex couples, LGBTIQ+ concerns are not included in students’ academic curricula. Therefore, following the historical path of gender studies (GS) and women’s studies (WS), this article explores the current feminist and gender discourse in order to catch a glimpse of what will be needed to fill this gap. To clarify which women’s and gender studies standpoints are taught to new generations in Italy, lexicometric and correspondence analysis were performed on the descriptions of universities courses teaching WS and GS perspectives. Although the international spread of these two perspectives in academia is still wide, the results indicate a consistent lack of these courses in Italian institutions of higher education and, moreover, separate viewpoints associated with the two perspectives.

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• 81605
• Item Type
• Journal Item
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• 0091-8369
• Keywords
• Gender and women’s studies; LGBTQ studies; Italian academia; Italian feminism; lexicometric analysis
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• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Marta Prandelli