There is. It's called History.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is, it's called Science.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is, it's called Literature.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is. It's called Mathematics.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is. It's called COMBO-BREAKKKKKKKKER

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Beat me to it :(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Can you say originality? No, probably not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes. Can you say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in less than 1 second? No, probably not. (did I spell that right?)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think you did. Congrats.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

there is no men studies. all you have to do to understand us men is: sports, porn, sex, heavy metal, porn, and sex.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm gonna be lazy and just copy paste an answer: 'it is a study of the evolution of women's roles in society, it's basically history, an example is how during WW1 when many men went off to war and women had to start working. previously the only jobs women had had were seemstresses or secretary style positions and they definitely would not be mechanics fixing cars and planes or working in factories making parts. but because there were no men around they had to take on these roles. after the war many didn't want to go back to being housewives and wanted to continue working, which later brings about the equal work equal pay conflicts- after WW1 women could continue working but didn't get paid the same as men so many men couldn't get jobs because it was cheaper to employ women but women were angry that they did the same work for less money.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

this is just an example and as you can see it is nothing to do with man hating, it's not rhetorical or fictional and it is nothing to do with philosophy. it is fact. it is history. it's a study of cause and effect- war causes women to work, the effect is women realise they are capable of it and want to continue working- this causes problems with equal work, equal pay, the effect is women have to fight for the right to be paid equally (even though many men were not able to get employment because of women they still didn't support women being paid equally, they just thought that a man should be a prefered employee even if they had to be paid more.) so you see it is a branch of history, it's no different to Aborigional studies, Rural studies, War studies, etc. it's just an aspect of history."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

tl;dr

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Normal history mainly focus on white men. To represent other groups of people they make specific history classes for them like Aboriginal studies etc... Women's studies are one of them so we can learn about things like the equal pay for equal work movement.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thanks, I read it now, I was just tired then :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah it was pretty long : / I just copied and pasted it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?” --Sandi Toksvig

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's pretty true... well we can't know about the calendar thing (although it sounds likely) but there are lots of things invented by women but they don't get credited for it because women didn't used to be allowed to patent something because it's "intellectual property" and they didn't have rights to own any property so they put it in their husband's and father's name.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

tl;dr bigger waste than liberal arts degree

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For the same reason there is no White History Month.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Its every month besides black and Asian month

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Isn't there also some Hispanic month?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It does. It's called "History of Western Civilization 101." The unwritten sub-text is "History about mostly white men, written by mostly white men." Enjoy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

EVERY STUDY IS MEN'S STUDIES

by Anonymous 12 years ago