Gender and Women’s Studies

Assistant Professor Guzaitis
Affiliated Faculty
Professors Abrams, Adler, Coats, Finkelpearl, Forster, Gonzales-Day, Greene, Hatcher-Skeers, Liss, Macko, Marcus-Newhall, Neiman Auerbach, Rachlin, Roberts, Sperling, C. Walker, S. Walker
Associate Professors Alcalá, Deeb, Groscup, Jacobs, Jáquez, Kang, Koss, LeMaster, MacNaughton, Weinberg
Assistant Professors Delmont, Golub, Harley, Lemoine, Sanjuán-Pastor, Wernimont
Lecturer Castagnetto

The Gender and Women’s Studies Department examines women, gender and sexuality in relation to race, class, ethnicities, belief systems, and nationalities. We offer an interdisciplinary framework through which to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality and the material impact of those constructions on the lives of women and men. We explore how norms of gender and sexuality arise in different times and places, are challenged, and persist. We offer historical, contemporary, and transnational analyses of how women in many different situations experience the dynamics of oppression and resistance. We value open inquiry and critical rigor as we study and participate in the cultural processes that construct gender in global contexts. From our engagement with and critique of disciplinary practices in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, we formulate new questions and forge new critical paradigms and methods for generating feminist knowledge. Our courses satisfy campus breadth requirements, develop critical analysis and writing skills, and transform students’ understanding of and engagement with the world around them.

A student who majors in Gender and Women’s Studies will take a strong liberal arts background linked to a range of practical experiences into a range of endeavors. Graduates may pursue advanced training and degrees in the arts, humanities, social sciences, or law; or pursue work in the private sector, government, social services, women’s advocacy programs, or NGOs. The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) at Scripps participates in the Intercollegiate Women’s Studies Program (IWS) at The Claremont Colleges.

Programs

• Courses in Gender and Women’s Studies
• Gender and Women’s Studies Major
• Gender and Women’s Studies Minor