Welcome! Women's Studies is a lively, engaged, real-world course of study that seeks to understand the lives, status, and accomplishments of women around the world, and to explore how gender affects all our lives. A deeply interdisciplinary field since its founding in the 1970s and 80s, Women's Studies grew from a conviction that traditional academic studies were 
impoverished by their ignorance of women's lives and their blindness to the gendered roles that,
