WGSS at Yale

Yemurai Mangwendeza Receives James Andrew Haas Prize
WGSS graduating senior, Yemurai Mangwendeza, is this year's recipient of the James Andrew Haas Prize for breadth of intellectual achievement and strength of character. Photo by Kimberly Pasko.
When Celebrities Share Secrets, Good Things Happen
A recently published CNN opinion piece by Professor Laura Wexler discusses the effects of celebrities "coming out of the closets of our culture." Specifically, Professor Wexler looks at the effects of Angelina Jolie making public the fact that she elected to undergo a double mastectomy.
WGSS Announces 2013 Prize Winners
The Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University is pleased to announce its 2013 prize winners. WGSS annually awards two prizes. The Lily Rosen Prize in Women's Health is awarded to an undergraduate in Yale College for the best essay that contributes to knowledge about women’s health. The Steere Prize in Women's Studies is awarded to the Yale senior essay which best exemplifies advance in scholarship gained by focusing on women or gender roles and/or by employing feminist theory.
WGSS & LGBTS Spring 2013 Newsletter
WGSS & LGBTS are excited to share the 2013 Spring Newsletter. This latest edition of the newsletter contains letters from the chairs of both programs talking about the many events and developments that took place during the spring 2013 term as well as include exciting announcements about next year. Please take a few minutes to read through the newsletter and catch up on what has been happening and what the future holds for WGSS and LGBTS!
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About the Program

The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Yale offers a variety of courses and an undergraduate major (BA). The Program establishes gender and sexuality as fundamental categories of social and cultural analysis. Drawing on history, literature, cultural studies, social science, and science, it offers interdisciplinary perspectives from which to study the diversity of human experience. Gender—the social meaning of the distinction between the sexes—and sexuality—sexual identities, discourses, and institutions—are studied as they intersect with class, race, ethnicity,nationality, and transnational movements.

The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program was established at Yale in 1979 as the Women's Studies program. Since its founding, the program has grown and evolved, changing its name twice—in 1998, to the Women's & Gender Studies Program, and in 2004, to the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program—to recognize the importance of the study of both gender and sexuality in the academy. A thorough history of the program, written in 2001 by Kirsten Lodal, is available here as a PDF: "Engendering an Intellectual Space: The Development of Women's Studies at Yale University, 1969-2001."

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