Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Furman provides an
interdisciplinary mode of inquiry that examines the historically
contingent roles gender and sexuality play in structuring the
social and cultural experiences of all people.  In addition to
exploring the specific and varied roles women play in our own
and other cultures, this interdisciplinary minor is concerned to
understand how the sex-gender system shapes knowledge across the
curriculum.  While courses in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies have disciplinary homes in different departments of
study, they are unified by their focus on the ways sex and
gender shape the knowledge we acquire within those disciplines
and across others. They bring recent knowledge about sex and
gender acquired in fields such as sociology, anthropology,
philosophy, and history into dialectical relation with a variety
of other disciplines such as biology and the empirical sciences,
psychology and the social sciences, as well as the traditional
humanities.  Women’s, Gen