Women's and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary
liberal arts program offering both an
undergraduate minor and concentration

Women's and Gender Studies Courses

  • Help you appreciate diversity and give you the interpersonal and professional skills to live in a multi-cultural world;
  • Give you strategies for analyzing power dynamics and inequities in social structures;
  • Prepare you for graduate study and careers in fields such as law, government, health and human services, and public administration;
  • Equip you for policy work with advocacy groups, human rights organizations, environmental and consumer groups.
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Upcoming Events for Spring 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

DR. BELL HOOKS LECTURE:
Cultural Criticism and Transformation
7:00 p.m. ~ Russell Union Ballroom

Renowned intellectual bell hooks examines popular culture in the context of patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism.  Although hooks is mainly known as a feminist thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, class, race, teaching and the significance of media for contemporary culture.

bell hooks (nee Gloria Watkins) is Distinguished Professor of English at Berea College in Kentucky. She is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. Her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981) was named one of the “twenty most influential women’s books of the last twenty years” by Publishers Weekly in 1992.

Contemporaries of hooks express admiration for her intellect, breadth, and influence.  Cornel West, hooks’ contemporary and co-author, calls hooks “the most prolific intellectual of her generation—a bold and courageous writer who probes the neglected dimensions and dark corners of our culture” (from The Cornel West Reader p. 541).

ADMISSION IS FREE! PROOF OF ATTENDANCE WILL BE PROVIDED.