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"The Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s house." - Audre Lorde

Women’s Studies examines the diversity of women’s lives, experiences, and voices in our multicultural and globalized world. We question traditional scholarship by asking: how have women been represented? how are knowledge and creativity influenced by gender, class, race, sexuality, and nationality? and how has knowledge been used to dominate and control?

Emerging out of the women’s movement, Women’s Studies explores issues of oppression and social transformation, ranging from the seemingly personal world of the home to the far reaches of economic and cultural globalization. At the heart of Women’s Studies is the concept of gender as it is shaped by race, class, sexuality, and nationality. We seek to discover the ways that diverse women - whose lives are formed at the intersection of these differences - shape their worlds of meaning, creating, and sheer survival.