Bachelor of Arts - Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Women, Gender and Sexuality is an interdisciplinary exploration through which students examine the social construction of gender and sexuality as well as the material impact of those constructions on the lived experiences of individuals. Goucher College offers historical, contemporary, and transnational analyses of gender, power, oppression, and resistance.

Employing a comparative approach, students explore how gender intersects with issues of nation, geographical location, histories of colonialism, culture, religion, sexuality, class, and race. The program focuses on the nuanced historical processes through which individuals and communities live out gender and sexuality; the set of institutional and ideological practices that shape them; and the concrete processes and political moments through which inequities are transformed.