Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Center for Research on Gender and Women

Lecturer position available for Fall 2013
(GWS 420 - Women in Cross Societal Perspective)
Applications due May 31, 2013
Holocaust survivor Gerda Lerner 'found a home' at UW as women's studies historian
Fall 2013 enrollment information is now available.
Published each semester, the Gender and Women’s Studies e-newsletter, will keep you informed about the latest and greatest from our department. Check out the Spring 2013 issue now!

The GWS blog is a great way to stay in touch with our department too. Check out features on our faculty, students and organizations.

We encourage you to help maintain women's health as central to the teaching and research mission of our department by making a donation to the Leavitt/Whatley/Worcester Fund that honors Judith Walzer Leavitt, Mariamne Henken Whatley, and Nancy Worcester, all professors emeritae of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, edited by Finn Enke, has been selected as a finalist for the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Award (books published in 2012). They received over 680 submissions, making this its largest year ever.

Christina Ewig and Jenny Higgins have been named as winners of the 2012-13 Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program prize for Best Research in Health & Society.

CRGW Bulletin of gender-related events and opportunities

Fem Sem schedule of speakers and activities

UW System Women's Studies Consortium E-Bulletin

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