Women’s and Gender Studies provides a critical, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural understanding of women, gender and power in a global context.
Focusing on the social inequalities that result from interlocking oppressions, you will discover and produce knowledge from feminist perspectives and link your academic pursuit with a call to activism. Within the context of the historic Christian faith, you'll learn to:
- Think more critically about your own lives
- Value complexity, diversity and difference
- Mobilize feminist theories
- Become agents of justice in the world
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Recent Blog Posts
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The Model Minority Myth, Relative Privilege, AAPI Experiences, and Why it’s All Oppression Anyway
Posted by Women's and Gender StudiesAsian community members are stuck in a double-bind; trapped between high expectations and the har...
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Roe v. Wade, 2022
Posted by Women's and Gender StudiesA Letter from Hope College’s Women’s Empowerment Organization–a Student Club De...
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Reflecting on “The Genesis of Gender”
Posted by Blogs AdministratorBy Megan Jacobs On September 30, 2021, Abigail Favale, doctor of gender studies at George Fox Uni...
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WGS Professors’ Research featured in Spera
Posted by Dr. Sarah KornfieldSpera is Hope College’s annual research magazine, a publication that highlights the scholar...
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WGS Student Awards 2019-2020
Posted by Dr. Sarah KornfieldAward winning WGS students at Hope College! The post
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Students Reflect on Christian Feminism (REL 264 w Dr. Japinga)
Posted by Dr. Sarah KornfieldSee recent student projects in WGS cross-listed course, Christian Feminism REL 264 The pos...
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Hope's First Four Women graduates:Sarah Alcott, 1882
Frances Phelps Otte, 1882
Lizzie Phelps, 1885
Mary Alcott Drekema, 1885
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