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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

#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...

Submit to the Berkman Award for Outstanding Graduate Feminist Scholarship

March 23, 2023

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 5PM, APRIL 14, 2023...

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Events

Sep
28

WGSS Welcome Gathering

South College W465
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Sep
29
Oct
19

Rindon Johnson @ The Trans/Queer Studies Colloquium

South College E470
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Nov
16

Jennifer DeClue @ Trans/Queer Studies Colloquium

South College E470
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

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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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