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Examine women’s experience in a gendered society

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- Women’s Studies students published in Timbrel
  
  Read what Women's Studies grads and majors have to say about women and the Mennonite church.
- Why Have Mennonite Women Gathered?
  
  Read about Emily Kraybill's insight into Mennonite women following her summer in the Goshen College Ministry Inquiry Program.
- Women’s Studies in Costa Rica
  
  Learn more about how Professor of English Beth Martin Birky has returned several times with students in recent years to Costa Rica to interview and collect the stories of women's organizations and businesses.
- Michiana Monologues 2010
  
  View photos from the performance of women's stories of pain and empowerment
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The Women’s studies Department enables students from a variety of disciplines to examine women’s experience in a gendered society. Classes in women’s studies critically examine cultural assumptions about gender, race and class.

Students can expect to be equipped with the tools to identify factors that constrain women’s lives, and examine feminist genre, research methods, aesthetics, criticism and contemporary issues.

This interdisciplinary program draws on courses from a variety of disciplines and women’s resources in the campus community to enhance a core of courses offered by the Women’s Studies Program.

More About Women’s Studies
Minor in Women’s Studies

Within the community of faith and learning at Goshen College, the women’s studies program examines women’s experience in a gendered and global society. Courses foster the study and cultivation of feminist scholarship and practice in students’ personal and professional preparation. This interdisciplinary program draws on courses from a variety of disciplines and women’s resources in the campus community in addition to a core of courses offered by the women’s studies program.

Course Descriptions
- Jessica Baldanzi
  
  Associate Professor of English
- Beth Birky
  
  Professor of English
- Jo-Ann Brant
  
  Professor of Bible, Religion, and Philosophy
- Keith Graber Miller
  
  Professor of Bible, Religion and Philosophy
- Ann Hostetler
  
  Professor of English
- Jeanne Liechty
  
  Professor of Social Work, Director of Social Work Program
- David Lind
  
  Associate Professor of Sociology
- Gilberto Perez Jr
  
  Associate Professor of Social Work
- Regina Shands Stoltzfus
  
  Assistant Professor of PJCS
- Jan Shetler
  
  Professor of History
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