{"id":8791,"date":"2026-02-09T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/?page_id=8791"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:35:12","slug":"gender-and-sexuality-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/gender-and-sexuality-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender and Sexuality Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies helps students to better understand the relationship between knowledge and power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our program emphasizes individual and collective empowerment, helping students recognize the creativity, solidarity, and care that sustain and deepen resilience. Born out of student activism and student demand, the courses within the major draw on histories of anti-racist, decolonial, feminist, queer, and trans work to examine shifting dynamics of privilege, exclusion, and marginalization. By studying gender and sexuality in these ways, students refute simple assertions about identity in favor of richly detailed accounts of the specific conditions through which particular social positions are maintained and transgressed. The program also cultivates action, practice, and reciprocal engagement with the many communities of which we are part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Matt Von Vogt, Academic Administrative Assistant
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To understand how gender and sexuality shape and are shaped by other aspects of social life<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To recognize patterns of historical inequity and pathways to social change<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To integrate theoretical concepts, empirical research, and lived experience<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To develop capacities for connection and engagement, including reflection on your own distinctive positionality<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To hone skills in listening, speaking, and writing, including the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively and ethically<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To cultivate action, practice, and reciprocal engagement with the many communities of which we are part<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our alumni have impacted the world as video game designers and as immigration attorneys, as teachers and as surgeons, as corporate executives and as choreographers, and in innumerable other ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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