Women’s and Gender Studies provides a critical, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural understanding of women, gender and power in a global context.

Focusing on the social inequalities that result from interlocking oppressions, you will discover and produce knowledge from feminist perspectives and link your academic pursuit with a call to activism. Within the context of the historic Christian faith, you'll learn to:

  • Think more critically about your own lives
  • Value complexity, diversity and difference
  • Mobilize feminist theories
  • Become agents of justice in the world

Hear from our students:

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Courtney Haitsma: What is the Patriarchy
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Em Wolfe: What is Feminism
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Jess Guillaume The Gender Wage Gap 1
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Samantha Mikolitis on Feminist Coalitions

Recent Blog Posts

  1. 2026 WGS Hope Graduates

    Posted by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

    The WGS Program is excited to celebrate with our 2026 graduates! Their work in and beyond the cla...

  2. WGS Research at CURCA

    Posted by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

    91ÌÒÉ«ÆÆ½â°æ’s 2026 Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (CURCA) inc...

  3. A Woman’s Place: WGS Student Interview and Review

    Posted by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

    By Ella Bulgrien My name is Ella Bulgrien, and I am a First Year student at 91ÌÒÉ«ÆÆ½â°æ studying...

  4. WGS for Everyone

    Posted by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

    Black feminist theorist bell hooks told us that too much of feminism is written in academic jargo...

  5. WGS Faculty Celebrations

    Posted by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

    Spring 2026 is a big semester for the WGS Faculty Council! We’re celebrating a career achie...

  6. Patriarchy, War, and Violence

    Posted by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

    By Anna Stowe Feminist scholar Carol P. Christ discusses the relationship of patriarchy with syst...

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