Welcome to the Women's and Gender Studies Program

The Women's and Gender Studies Program provides an interdisciplinary, critical, feminist and cross-cultural understanding of women, gender and power in a global context. Focusing on the interactions/intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies fosters the generation of knowledge about women in all their diversity and encourages the critical interrogation of traditional academic disciplines.

Using cross-cultural and multi-racial perspectives, the program includes exploration of:

women's lives, labor and arts
the politics of sexuality
the structural, institutional, legal, and historical meanings of gender
the history of gender roles and performances
representations of women in different media
the impact of gendered analysis on the sciences
the gendered formation of knowledge

Georgetown College offers both a major and minor in Women's and Gender Studies, and the School for Foreign Service offers a certificate in Women's and Gender Studies (equivalent to a minor). The Women's and Gender Studies major is an option within the Interdisciplinary Studies Program.

Interested students should contact the Director, Pamela Fox, as early as possible in their sophomore year to plan a program of study.