女权主义研究是一个跨学科的研究领域，已经进行了三十多年的前沿研究并促进了创新教学。它是跨学科的，因为它汲取了社会科学和人文学科学科的核心理论和方法，并对其做出了贡献。同时，与现有研究领域中出现的其他学科一样，它发展了研究传统，方法论，理论体系，期刊，专业协会，会议，课程，研究生课程以及其他机构自治学科的装备。女权主义研究的根源在于对妇女经验的研究以及对妇女在知识生产中的忽视的批评。但是“女权主义研究”这个名字反映了这样一个事实，即主题不仅包括妇女，而且研究和教学着眼于性别关系，种族，阶级，种族，种族，性别
Feminist Studies is an interdisciplinary area of inquiry that has been producing cutting-edge research and fostering innovative teaching for over thirty years. It is interdisciplinary because it draws from and contributes to theories and methodologies central to disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities. At the same time, like other disciplines that emerged from existing areas of study, it has developed a research tradition, an approach to methodology, a body of theory, journals, a professional association, conferences, curricula, graduate programs, and the other institutional accoutrements of an autonomous discipline.<br><br>The roots of Feminist Studies lie in the study of women's experiences and a critique of their neglect in knowledge production. But the name Feminist Studies reflects the fact that the subject matter includes more than women: research and teaching focus on the ways that relations of gender, intersecting with race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, age, religion, ability, and other categories of difference, are embedded in social, political, and cultural formations. Feminist Studies encompasses teaching and research interests in men and masculinities and sexualities, as well as women.