Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Old Main Room 409
651-696-6318
651-696-6350 fax
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Why WGSS at Macalester?

In the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (WGSS) at Macalester College, students investigate key questions raised within feminist and queer theories and the fields of women’s, transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay studies. We examine our core topics in contexts of interlocking systems of cultural and political difference based on race, nation, class, ethnicity, and ability, including comparative national and transnational perspectives.

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Department icon is taken from a mural painted by WGSS 2010 graduates Bobbi Gass and Abby Seeskin.

Fall 2012 Courses

  • Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality
  • Latin America Through Women's Eyes
  • The Culture Wars: The Struggle over Feminism, Abortion, and Queer Politics since 1970
  • Goddess and Ghosts: Images of Women in Chinese Culture and Literature
  • Culture and Theory of Women of Color Feminisms
  • Minding the Body
  • Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies
  • History of U.S. Feminisms
  • Feminist Political Theory
  • Performing Feminisms
  • Whiteness and Postcolonialism
  • Gender, Race, and Health in 20th Century US
  • Gender, Power and Sexualitites in Africa
  • Lives in Context

Fall 2012 class schedule