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  • Under-Enrolled Class
    Looking for a class to fill in your schedule? Consider WGSS/ENGL 3609 with Dr. Bhakti Shringarpure! The class is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-1:45 PM! See flier below for more information
    Posted on May 12, 2021
  • UCHI 2021 Winners From WGSS Faculty, Affiliate Faculty, and Graduate Students
    We would like to congratulate our WGSS Faculty members for being winners in the UCHI Fellowships!UConn Faculty Fellows:Haile Eshe Cole (Anthropology and Africana Studies)“Belly: Topographies of Black Reproduction”Shardé M. Davis (Communication; Africana Studies; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)UCHI Faculty of Color Working Group Fellow“Being #BlackintheIvory: Contending with Racism in the American UniversityLaura Mauldin (Human […]
    Posted on April 21, 2021
  • 2020 Declaration on Women’s Rights
    This post and its contents were Sent on behalf of WGSS Affiliate Zehra Arat. The downloadable documents according to each section are located at the bottom of this post. THE 2020 DECLARATION ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS We, the undersigned women’s groups and feminist organizations, collectively representing nearly a thousand women’s organizations, held a meeting on October […]
    Posted on December 15, 2020

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The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program was established as the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Connecticut in 1974. The first formal program of its kind in the state, it was founded as a flexible interdisciplinary academic program devoted to the critical analysis of gender and the pursuit of knowledge about women.

 

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