The Women's and Gender Studies Program endorses a broad and flexible definition of feminist research, scholarship, and teaching, and seeks to offer a diverse and inclusive range of courses representing all disciplines and numerous feminisms. Multiple understandings of how gender and sexuality are inflected by race, class, and nationality are encouraged.
Feminism, in theory and practice, begins with the assumption that social and cultural institutions have historically treated men and women differently, and that this different treatment has been to the economic and cultural disadvantage of women. Women's and gender studies courses take a feminist perspective in exploring issues in the personal lives of women and men; in cultures, both past and present; in social and religious institutions; and in policy making. In addition, women's and gender studies courses focus on how women represent themselves and are represented in artistic and literary creations and productions.
Regardless of whether a women's and gender studies course is in the arts; humanities; social, biological, or physical sciences, students are assured of an educational experience that relates ideas to the lived experience of women and men.
For more information, call Mary Driscoll at 656-4282.Last modified February 13 2006 01:55 PM
