Women's and Gender Studies is concerned with feminist scholarship and the issues and debates surrounding sexuality and gender. It is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that seeks to understand and articulate how gender makes a difference - in the lives and experiences of women, as well as men; in the practices and institutions of human societies; and in the cultural products of societies, such as art and literature.

Emphasising the importance of historical and cross-cultural perspectives, Women's and Gender Studies critically examines the intersections of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age and ability to make visible structures of power that otherwise remain hidden.

Studying Women's and Gender Studies at UNSW

Women's and Gender Studies can be taken by undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science as an additional major sequence together with a home-based major (This means it must be combined with a major in another school in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.) It may also be studied as a Combined Honours program in a number of degrees offered in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science and through combined degrees offered with other faculties - please refer to the table below for a complete list. For further information on Women's and Gender Studies please visit our website http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/womenstudies/

The University also offers Women's Studies at postgraduate level, through PhD (Research) and Masters (Research) degree programs. Please refer to the table below for a complete list.