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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When will it be Enough?
Posted by Women's and Gender StudiesHope College undergraduate Sutton Steensma responds to "Trust Black Women: Reproductive Justice a...
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Fully Searching
Posted by Women's and Gender StudiesHope College undergraduate Kaylee Stanton reflects--in poetic expression--on feminist research an...
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The Production of Babies
Posted by Women's and Gender StudiesHope College's Elizabeth Bassett reflects--in poetry--to Loretta Ross's conceptualization of Repr...
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Researcher as Artist
Posted by Women's and Gender StudiesHope College undergraduate Nicole Galloway reflects on the researcher's authority and responsibil...
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WEO and Period Supplies
Posted by Dr. Sarah KornfieldWEO launches period product availability on Hope's Campus. The post
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What is Prop 3? Event
Posted by Women's and Gender StudiesHope's student organization, the Women's Empowerment Organization reflects on an evening of infor...
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Hope's First Four Women graduates:Sarah Alcott, 1882
Frances Phelps Otte, 1882
Lizzie Phelps, 1885
Mary Alcott Drekema, 1885