Our Mission:

*To place gender at the center of scholarly analysis.

*To study how gender fundamentally shapes our history and culture, in ways we often overlook.

*To highlight gender as a driving force in social life for both women and men.  

Our Goals

*To examine gender as a system of ideas defining masculinity and femininity, delineating differences between the sexes, and regulating expressions of sexuality.

*To provide a rich understanding of gender as a social construction that intersects with class, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and sexual identity.

*To integrate insights about gender from the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and the arts, and to use gender as a way to interrogate the boundaries between these existing bodies of knowledge.

*To examine the lives and experiences of groups which have been underrepresented in traditional academic work -- e.g., women, ethnic and religious minorities, gays and lesbians, the poor and working class.

*To acquaint students with the fundamental methodologies of women’s and gender studies.  

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