Women’s studies: Its origins, its organization and its prospects

Women’s studies are the intellectual examination of the absence of women from history; a fresh look in a non-Freudian way at the social psychology of women; the study of women in literature and the images of women in the Arts; the economic and legal history of the family; and speculation about ‘androgyny’, a state of society and a state of mind where sex-differences might be socially, economically and politically overcome.