Elena Shih, assistant professor of American studies and ethnic studies, delivered the Annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman ’77, P’06, P’09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies Thursday afternoon in ...

The Ida B. Wells lecture series explores contemporary issues impacting the rights of women and justice for all marginalized people and elevates the voices of those who have been silenced. The series ...

The Carter Series presents lectures focused on outstanding research on women, including the annual Faculty Research Award lecture. The series is intended to provide an opportunity to explore varied ...

Students and faculty gathered on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Rowe Center for Undergraduate Education to hear from Dr. L. Monique Ward, a prominent researcher studying how media affects women’s ...

This course examines assumptions, arguments, evidence and underlying values about biological sex differences, sexuality and gender construction and asks: Who is a woman? Is sex a stable category? What ...

Long before there was a field called gender studies, it was women's studies. Many college and university programs now are referred to as Women's and Gender Studies or Gender and Women's Studies, and ...

The film takes place in a college feminist literature course as transgender student Maisie studies both the course curriculum and her classmate, Rachel, who she sees as a pinnacle of femininity.

Women’s and Gender Studies have its roots in the student, civil rights, and women’s movements of the 1960s and 70s. In its early years the field’s teachers and scholars principally asked, “Where are ...

Combine the study of gender dynamics with RIT’s integrated strengths in STEAM: Carve your own innovative and dynamic path through RIT’s unique constellation of sciences, technologies, and the arts.

The field of women’s studies is nearly 50 years old. A product of the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, women's studies emerged at a time when English classes might only read novels by men, history classes ...

A three-course concentration in one of three areas: Cultural Politics of Representation; Power, Rights, and Society; or Sexualities, Body Politics, and Social Structures Five electives A two-course ...