Lehigh University Women's Studies Maginnes Hall, 535 9 W. Packer Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18015-3082 Phone:  (610) 758-5119 Fax:  (610) 758-6232 (fax through the College of Arts and Science)

Welcome to Women's Studies

Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry that critically examines the diverse realities of women's lives and the ways in which gender and power differentials shape human lives and human societies. Women's studies pursues a fundamental critique of knowledge by challenging the basic assumptions, methods of inquiry, theoretical frameworks, and knowledge claims of traditional fields of inquiry that have thought it unimportant to study women or gender. Women's studies seeks to create new paradigms of knowledge and inquiry, to develop more truthful and comprehensive understandings of humans and our world, and to explore non-sexist alternatives for more richly human lives and more fully human social orders.

The Women's Studies program began in 1972 with the offering of a minor in 1978 and both a major and a graduate certificate in 2008.

Want to learn what you can do with a Women's Studies degree?  Read over the following brief articles by Ms. Magazine's Spring 2007 issue.

Transform the World          Real Stories

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