Gender and Women's Studies

Physicist, environmentalist and feminist scholar and activist Vandana Shiva, April, 2005 on sustainability, biodiversity and human rights.

Gender and Women's Studies, an interdisciplinary transnational course of study, is designed to help students understand the ways in which sexual politics shapes social experience.

We examine the nuanced historical processes through which women and men live out gender; the set of institutional and ideological practices that shape it; and the concrete processes and political movements through which inequities are transformed.

Employing a transnational, comparative approach, students explore how gender intersects with issues of nation, culture, religion, sexuality, class, and race.

Gender and Women's Studies prepares students to utilize feminist methodologies and approaches to interrogate other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and arts.

Giovanna Torchio '02, Gender & Women's Studies major, used her experience on the 2004 Howard Dean campaign trail . Read the feature story.	Molly Kawachi '06, sociology based human relations and Gender and Women’s Studies major has already begun learning what it means to be an activist. Read the feature story.