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  • Summer CPE Courses!

    Registration for Summer has begun!  
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    WGSS 187 - Gender, Sexuality and Culture
    WGSS 205 - Feminist Health Politics
    WGSS 291R - Gender, Race and Family
    WGSS 292M - Sex, Race and Medicine
    WGSS  297R - Sex, Race and Cinema

  • 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.

  • Paths of Study

    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 Advanced 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.

  • 2017 End of Year Celebration

    A group picture from our End of Year Celebration! More pictures of past celebrations and other photo albums can be seen on our Photo Gallery!

News

Registration for Fall 2019 is happening!

April 03, 2019

Our course guide is ready!  Stop by W401 South College for a copy or check it out on our website.    https://www.umass.edu/wgss/fall-2019-courses

Read what our faculty write!

December 10, 2018

Our faculty are writing!...

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Events

May
03-04

Critical University Studies and the Futures of Academic Feminisms

W245 South College, UMass
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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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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