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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 for Everyone
Posted Feb 25, 2026 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Black feminist theorist bell hooks told us that too much of feminism is written in academic jargo...
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WGS Faculty Celebrations
Posted Feb 20, 2026 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Spring 2026 is a big semester for the WGS Faculty Council! We’re celebrating a career achie...
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Patriarchy, War, and Violence
Posted Sep 29, 2025 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

By Anna Stowe Feminist scholar Carol P. Christ discusses the relationship of patriarchy with syst...
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WGS Undergraduate Research Spotlight
Posted Sep 23, 2025 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

My name is Riley Gruppen and I am a senior at Hope College studying Political Science and Women�...
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WGS Program Welcomes Dr. Katherine Goodwin
Posted Aug 23, 2024 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Interview with Hope College's new WGS professor, Dr. Katherine Goodwin. The post
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What color is my voice?
Posted Sep 18, 2023 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Interview with WGS student An Ha, featuring her published research on the intertwining of languag...
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