Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Our students create change

FGSS develops gender/sexuality literacy—the ability to understand and analyze how ideas of sex and gender impact societies, institutions, technologies, and power. 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, medicine and 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, in areas such as law, medicine, health, public policy, education, the arts, and more.

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.