{"id":10626,"date":"2025-05-05T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/?page_id=10626"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:13:34","slug":"womens-gender-sexuality-studies-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/womens-gender-sexuality-studies-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies program at Winona State offers interdisciplinary courses in which students work together to explore power, privilege, oppression, and social change movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, the fight for reproductive and racial justice, LGBTQIA+ social movements, this minor offers students an intersectional analytic framework for community engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minor in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies engages critical analyses ranging from the personal to the global at the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, and ability.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Women’s Studies<\/div>\n

Foregrounds the lived experience and material conditions of women<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Gender Studies<\/div>\n

Highlights the social construction of gender and spectrum of gender identities and representations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Sexuality Studies<\/div>\n

Focuses on sexual behaviors, expressions, identities, and politics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Women’s studies, gender studies and sexuality studies have distinct disciplinary histories. But because they also overlap, our curriculum teaches them relation to each other. We focus on how these 3 fields approach problems of sex, gender, and sexuality from various critical angles. <\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Feminism in Action<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Women\u2019s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Department has been coordinating annual events that celebrate feminism and underrepresented voices for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These events and programming allow all students\u2014not just WGSS minors\u2014to become leaders and advocates for sustainable change right on campus and within the community.<\/p>\n\n\n

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