Gender & Women's Studies

Taking The Next Step

Gender and Women's Studies achieves department status at UK

GWS has a new look this year and it is a very exciting place to be! The biggest news is that we now offer a major in GWS, and that we are a full-fledged department, rather than a program. Our Graduate Certificate is still going strong and we are working on plans for a future Ph.D. program.

Pat Cooper Department Chair

In a certain main academic office on campus is a picture of a half-undressed young woman, breast exposed, smoking, with cigarette butts littered around her enticingly draped bed. It is the cover of a pamphlet dated 1905 that loudly asks the loaded question, “Is College Bad for Girls?” and insinuates that a college education leads young women to such deadly sins as “flirting” and “speaking to male students without Proper Introduction or Chaperone..."
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Gender & Women's StudiesNews & Events

GWS Launches Department and Major

The Program has graduated to a Department and also offers a B.A. for the first time!

Taking The Next Step - Gender and Women's Studies Achieves Department Status at UK

Beginning fall of 2009, the department will begin offering bachelors degrees, and graduate degrees will soon follow.

Meet A&S Graduate Students

"My interest in gender and sexuality law has been heavily influenced by what I have learned in the last three years at UK, particularly in the many GWS courses I have taken." ... more

Hannah Alsgaard Graduate Student

Mental Health Services Access for Sexual Minority Individuals

Article evaluates the low level of positive mental health services of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals. by Ellen D. (with Gina P. Owens and Sharon Scales Rostosky) Riggle»

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