The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) at Bowdoin seeks to shape social identity and lived experience at the individual, cultural, institutional, national, and global levels.
GSWS at Bowdoin encourages students to interrogate how gender expressions such as masculinity and femininity as well as social norms around sexuality, reproduction, and the family vary across cultures and historic periods.
The GSWS curriculum challenges the privileging of some categories of identity and experience over others, and explores the social and political implications of such hierarchies.
Leaders in All Walks of Life: Fifty Years of Women at Bowdoin
September 24-25, 2021
Join us Friday, September 24 and Saturday, September 25 for an alumnae-organized weekend to kick off a yearlong celebration of fifty years of women at Bowdoin.
The program includes a keynote conversation and sessions designed to engage, spark conversations, make connections, and recognize this historic milestone for the College.