No. 3 (2008): ‘Canon’ and Gender Studies

We adopt the word ‘canon’ to mean the defining authors and works that are considered essential to any discipline. In the last few decades Gender Studies has developed  critical analysis on the selection of canonic content in various disciplines. This issue aims at collecting and comparing critical studies on this subject. Its aim is not to try to integrate the academic disciplines with fragments of gender studies. It aims at showing that the subjects that our cultural tradition presented as being universal and sexually neutral were in fact a representation of only one prevailing group, the occidental male. We aim to deconstruct the canons of various disciplines so as to redress the bias.