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  • Exploration across disciplines

    Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst offers a robust interdisciplinary set of options including an undergraduate major, an undergraduate minor, and a graduate certificate in Feminist Studies. Our classes are primarily small, and we pride ourselves on excellent teaching and innovative pedagogy. Each undergraduate major works one-on-one with a faculty advisor.

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  • Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass

    We are committed to interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis in which the study of women and gender is multi-faceted, diverse, and embedded in a network of power relations including race, class, sexuality, and nation. Check out the books our faculty are publishing! To see more books, click here.

  • UWW classes!

    Need a GenEd?

    Check our our UWW (Online) classes!

    Fall 2023 - History of Sexuality and Race in the U.S. (HS, DU)
     

News

Welcome Back - WGSS Fall 2023 Newsletter

October 03, 2023

We hope that your fall semester is off to a good start! Catch a glimpse of what is going on in WGSS this term in our online newsletter.

#UMassGives 2023 -- Support WGSS and the Prison Education Intiative

April 25, 2023

#UMassGives 2023 begins tomorrow and it is an opportunity for you to support vital initiatives on campus. We hope that you will consider donating to WGSS directly and/or to the UMass Prison...

Reflection on WGSS 698: Teaching and Learning in Carceral Spaces

April 17, 2023

ON THE CONDITION NOT TO MEET AGAIN...

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Why study WGSS?

Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

The field views and analyzes intellectual problems and issues of current concern through the perspectives of gender, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and ability. Students think about challenges faced by marginalized (or not) individuals in both domestic and foreign spaces, and work to conceptualize solutions that can be applied in communities around the world. 

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