Title: Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Location: US
Company: Education
Gender and sexuality are basic organizing structures of society. These categories are embedded in law, politics, and culture. Gender and sexuality shape the distribution of life opportunities locally and globally, and they permeate some of our most fundamental ways of experiencing and thinking about the world. Gender, women’s, and sexuality studies (GWSS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the complexities of gender and sexuality across various cultures, historical periods, and political contexts. The GWSS program at Grinnell offers students a broad foundation in feminist, critical race, and queer scholarship and activism.
GWSS is vitally important to the liberal arts curriculum because it is an inherently interdisciplinary field of study. GWSS majors explore courses across the campus to fulfill their elective requirements. In the program’s core courses, students learn to think through the lenses of various disciplines, applying methods and theoretical models borrowed from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students then take questions of power, privilege, and agency learned in GWSS courses and apply them in their courses across the curriculum.
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