Shift your view, change your world

Gender studies focuses on pressing local and global social-justice issues. We examine how gender shapes people's lives, experiences, knowledge and possibilities in relation to Indigenous and racialized identities, class, sexuality, age, ability, geographical location and more.

In our classrooms, you'll acquire a unique perspective on the world and your place in it, on how power works and how systems of inequality can be addressed.

—Annalee Lepp, Gender Studies

Interested in the active pursuit of social justice? Curious about how to address different inequities in the world?

Find your edge in UVic's Department of Gender Studies!

Acknowledgement of the territories

We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Department Mission Statement

The Department of Gender Studies at UVic actively pursues social justice. With attention to networks of power and how power circulates, we examine the relationships between gender and other socially constructed categories (e.g., race, class, sexuality, and other important locations). This examination is undertaken in the context of ongoing (de)colonization, neoliberal capitalism, globalization, transnationalism, and environmental degradation. Through our myriad forms of teaching, research, and community engagements, we mobilize tools of interrogation, resistance, and transgression. Our work is guided by an ongoing process of theorizing, practice, and critical reflection. At the forefront of change, we proceed with an ethics of care and accountability.