An interdisciplinary major and minor at The University of Tulsa.
The program in Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Tulsa considers how gender and other intersecting factors, such as race, class, culture, sexuality, and age, have worked to shape the life experiences of women and men from diverse backgrounds. The program analyzes the contemporary and historical factors that underlie the current statuses of women and men from all parts of the world and explores the various means by which people have sought to achieve equality.
The program’s dual emphases on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality offer students analytical frameworks and methological tools with which to understand people’s life experiences, human interactions, and economic and social institutions. By promoting awareness and knowledge of status-based oppression; of people’s inter-relationships; and of the ways in which civil rights movements throughout history have struggled for equity, the program seeks to contribute to changing attitudes and practices that tend to silence people’s voices or that work to devalue, marginalize, or subordinate women and men’s choices and life experiences. The B.A. degree is offered in this area.
For further information about the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, contact Professor
Lamont Lindstrom, program co-director, at [email protected] or another board member: Professor Professor Jan Wilson, Professor Holly Laird, Professor Jennifer Airey.
The program analyzes the contemporary and historical factors that underlie the current statuses of women and men, from all parts of the world, and explores the various means by which people have sought to achieve equality. By employing diverse methods of inquiry grounded in a variety of academic disciplines, courses in the program use gender as a pivotal category of analysis to clarify relationships between people and to analyze the extent to which their differences have been socially constructed and historically contested.
The program’s dual emphases on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality offer students analytical frameworks and methodological tools with which to understand people’s life experiences, human interactions, and economic and social institutions. By promoting awareness and knowledge of status-based oppression; of people’s interrelationships; and of the ways in which civil rights movements throughout history have struggled for equity, the program seeks to contribute to changing attitudes and practices that tend to silence people’s voices or that work to devalue, marginalize, or subordinate women and men’s choices and life experiences.
The TU Women’s and Gender Studies Program offers exciting and dynamic courses, including “Gender Across Cultures,” “Sociology of Bodies,” “African American Women Writers,” “Psychology of Diversity,” “History of American Sexuality,” “Feminism and Contemporary Art,” “Queer Theory/Queer Lives,” and “Housewives to Harridans: Images of Women in Drama.”
