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Welcome to the
Women's and Gender Studies
Program
at Northern Arizona University
NAU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program is
interdisciplinary,
with a particular focus on gender and the Colorado
Plateau,
US
ethnic and Indigenous women, and transnational feminisms.
The program organizes yearly all-women Women on the Rapids trips on the Colorado and San Juan rivers, cross-lists classes with the Department of Applied Indigenous Studies and the Ethnic Studies Program, works closely with affiliated faculty across five colleges and 22 departments, programs and offices, and offers discipline-based and Women’s and Gender Studies courses that balance theory and activism, the local and the global, the humanities and social sciences, and the classroom and the natural world.
We locate gender in space and place by examining the interactions of gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality and age. In classrooms and conference sessions, on the river and in canyons, in our writing and discussions, on-line and face-to-face, we rediscover our histories, explore contemporary realities, interrogate text, confront oppression, and imagine possibilities.
Announcements: Fall 2008 Women on the Rapids
An all female rafting trip on the Colorado River
WGS 499-2/599 (1 credit)
Join us for the Fall 2008 Women on the Rapids in navigating Class IV and V rapids, hiking to turquoise waterfalls and high desert mesas, yoga on sandy beaches, mud baths on the bank of the Colorado, camping under velvet skies, and feminist explorations of the wilderness.
Sign up by September 12, 2008.
Trip dates:
Thursday, October 2nd to Sunday, October 5th.
In-class dates:
Friday, October 17 and Friday, October 24.
Student stipends and payment options (including LOUIE accounts) available. Call the WGS Office for more information at 928-523-3300.
Flagstaff Fairworld Project
WGS is working with the Abya Yala University Association to organize the Flagstaff Fairworld Project, Flagstaff’s first fair trade initiative. The project supports the livelihoods of crafters of authentic traditional items by paying them fair prices for their work. Currently we have goods from the Apache nation and from Mayan Guatemala. To read more about where and when Flagstaff Fairworld Project auctions and sales are being held, click on the following link:http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~abyaya-
p/index-2b.html
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Box 5695
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Telephone: 928-523-3300 ~ fax: 928-523-5560
womens.studies@nau.edu