Major in a Minute: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

We now go back to your regularly scheduled Major in a Minute transcriptions. (For those wondering, there are 27 videos total.)




Amira: The focus of Women's Studies is to really shift the ways that you've been used to thinking about the world.

Crystal: We're not just studying women's lives but studying gender itself and looking at how race and class and sexual orientation effect our everyday lives.

Amira: Women's Studies is really grounded in a social justice framework. It's really interested in asking questions about various sets of oppression. People are really interested in questions about gender. What do we understand woman to mean, what do we understand man to mean? A lot of folks will go on to things like advocacy work, social work, law school...

Crystal: By having a gendered analysis of really prominent social issues it provides a whole other lens with which to view what's happening and to really create social change.