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Women亚洲色吧檚 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 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
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...
WGS Students亚洲色吧� Research Featured at CURCA 2023
Posted Apr 15, 2023 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Undergraduate research is a distinctive element of the Hope College education and the Women’...
Bold Resistance: Interview with WGS Alumna Chloe Long
Posted Feb 14, 2023 by Dr. Sarah Kornfield

Interview with Hope College's WGS alumna Chloe Long The post
When will it be Enough?
Posted Nov 30, 2022 by Women's and Gender Studies

Hope College undergraduate Sutton Steensma responds to "Trust Black Women: Reproductive Justice a...
Fully Searching
Posted Nov 28, 2022 by Women's and Gender Studies

Hope College undergraduate Kaylee Stanton reflects--in poetic expression--on feminist research an...

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Hope's First Four Women graduates:Sarah Alcott, 1882

Frances Phelps Otte, 1882

Lizzie Phelps, 1885

Mary Alcott Drekema, 1885

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