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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

Hear from our students:

Courtney Haitsma: What is the Patriarchy

Em Wolfe: What is Feminism

Jess Guillaume The Gender Wage Gap 1

Samantha Mikolitis on Feminist Coalitions

Recent Blog Posts

WGS Professors’ Research featured in Spera
Posted Feb 18, 2021 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Spera is Hope College’s annual research magazine, a publication that highlights the scholar...
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WGS Student Awards 2019-2020
Posted May 10, 2020 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Award winning WGS students at Hope College! The post
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Students Reflect on Christian Feminism (REL 264 w Dr. Japinga)
Posted May 04, 2020 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

See recent student projects in WGS cross-listed course, Christian Feminism REL 264 The pos...
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Forbidden Voices
Posted Jan 06, 2020 by Women's and Gender Studies

I (Hannah Jones, ’21) attended a screening of the film Forbidden Voices on November 18, 201...
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Powerful Literature
Posted Oct 29, 2019 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

The students in WGS 200: Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies recently finished a c...
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WGS Advising: Spring 2020
Posted Oct 18, 2019 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Each semester, WGS faculty meet with students for advising: helping students discern how to pursu...
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