WELCOME TO WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES

       The Women's and Gender Studies Program is the interdisciplinary examination of women and gender across cultures and ages. The program addresses significant omissions in traditional scholarship by (1) examining the history, contributions of women, (2) studying the ways gender has structured intellectual and social traditions, and (3) calling attention to how issues of gender intersect with other structures of power such as race and class.

       The Lycoming College Women's and Gender Studies Program impacts the entire Lycoming community. It assists in and promotes the integration of women, gender, and sexualities into courses across the disciplines; stimulates new research and scholarship on women, gender, and sexualities; initiates and co-sponsors events related to women, gender, and sexualities with campus departments and student organizations; encourages and supports student-initiated projects; collaborates with other campus units to advocate a positive environment for all, including people of color, ethnic minorities, and members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.

       The interdisciplinary and complementary nature of the Women's and Gender Studies Program broadens its participants' contributions to and appreciation of a variety of other disciplines, including Business Administration,
Communication, Criminal Justice, Education, English, Foreign
Language and Literature, History, Philosophy, Political Science,
Psychology, and Religion.

       Recent Women's and Gender Studies events have included Robin
Melavalin's three-day power photography workshop on self-esteem
and a Women's History Month celebration of feminist research
(Spring 2000); presentations of Eve Ensler's play TheVagina
Monologues (Spring 2002); a lecture by noted feminist
scholar Anne Firor Scott (Fall 2003); workshops and a
performance of Feminists Are Funny by the Guerrilla
Girls on Tour (Spring 2004); and the annual
Women's Film Festival, now well into its second decade.