page_title: Gender studies
section_title: State and governmental attitudes to gender studies
hierarchical_section_title: Gender studies / Criticisms / State and governmental attitudes to gender studies
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Pikieta modlitewno-edukacyjna przeciwników instalacji "Tęcza" i ideologii gender na placu Zbawiciela w Warszawie
context_page_description: Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. It includes women's studies, men's studies and queer studies. Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, has been noted as a success of deconstructionism. Sometimes, gender studies is offered together with study of sexuality. These disciplines study gender and sexuality in the fields of literature, language, geography, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, cinema, media studies, human development, law, public health and medicine. It also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality.
  Regarding gender, Simone de Beauvoir said: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." This view proposes that in gender studies, the term "gender" should be used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and not to the state of being male or female in its entirety. However, this view is not held by all gender theorists.
context_section_description: In Central and Eastern Europe anti-gender movements are on the rise, especially, in Hungary, Poland, and Russia.
caption: Picketing against gender ideology and the culture of death in Warsaw, 2014
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