Commemorate this past academic year with us!
See the 2024-25 FGSS End-of-Year Newsletter linked below.
Recognizing our students!
See our 2024-25 recipients for outstanding papers and Honors or Master's theses on topics related to gender, feminism, and sexuality.
Our students create change
Individuals and societies around the globe and in varied historical periods have debated understandings of and experience of gender and sex. FGSS helps students analyze how gender roles, relations, and identities have intertwined with social, political, and cultural factors such as race, nationality, religion and belief, class, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, health, technology and age. Through personalized, interdisciplinary curricula and practical experience, our students explore varied perspectives in gender and sexuality studies methodologies and theories to learn, ask questions, carry out research, and chart their own career and intellectual paths.
The Program offers an undergraduate major, secondary major, and minor, and an interdisciplinary honors program that is open to undergraduates in all majors. Additionally, the program offers a PhD minor that is open to all students currently enrolled in a doctoral program at Stanford. FGSS welcomes and encourages participation from individuals of all identities and backgrounds
Undergraduate Opportunities
Interdisciplinary Study & Practical Experience
What can you do with with a degree in FGSS?
“I took classes around gender-based violence within the health concentration. I was able to explore a variety of social issues that affect health particularly for gender marginalized people.”
Graduate Opportunities
Develop Interdisciplinary Courses
Graduate Teaching in FGSS
Namrata Verghese taught a new FGSS course in Spring 2025 on Gender, Sexuality, and the Law. She is a third-year PhD student in Modern Thought and Literature and a minor in FGSS. Namrata is also pursuing a joint JD at Stanford Law School.
News and Events
Events
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Firebrand, professor, and fantasy author, Sally Gearhart spearheaded the 70-80s US lesbian feminist movement. SALLY! peels back proverbial…
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This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
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This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, the Center for African Studies, and the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality…
