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Linzy Brekke-Aloise, Interim Program Director (2012-2013)
Wendy Chapman Peek, Program Director (on sabbatical 2012-2013)

Gender & Sexuality Studies Steering Committee:
Margaret Boyd, Sociology & Criminology
Linzy Brekke-Aloise, History
Wendy Chapman Peek, English
Katie Currul-Dykeman, Sociology & Criminology
Rudy de Mattos, Foreign Languages
Stacy Grooters, English
George Piggford, C.S.C., English
Daria Valentini, Foreign Languages
 

The Gender and Sexuality Studies Program offers a major and a minor within the Bachelor of Arts degree.

The mission of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program is to use gender as a lens to promote critical thinking and scholarly development from an interdisciplinary perspective. Informed by feminist and queer theoretical perspectives, Gender and Sexuality Studies explores the differences within and between men and women and the construction of those differences within gendered systems of oppression. Courses in the program focus on a range of gendered institutions, such as family, work, religion, education, health, medicine, media, and politics. Our courses also investigate the many ways scholars, artists, and activists have researched, represented, and critiqued our gendered world.

Among the topics students can expect to study are:

• The impact of gender and sexual identity on human relations within local, national, and global communities;
• The relationship of gender to race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, religion, and nationality;
• The distinctions among biological sex, gender, sexual orientation, and sexual identity; and
• The history and implications of gender and sexuality in questions of social justice.

Programs

• Gender and Sexuality Studies, B.A.

• Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor

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