I am a senior working toward a double major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Italian. WGSS has offered me the opportunity to learn what the term feminist means and explore my world through a feminist lens. The program challenges me to criticize the gender scripts that society writes for women and apply necessary changes within my own life. WGSS brings academia and real-life experience together so that what I learn in the classroom educates me to rise to my full potential outside of university walls. Being a WGSS major will forever influence how I process the world around me and my place within that world.
I have always been a feminist; however, until I became involved in the WGSS program, I feared labeling myself as one. Professor Stiritz's Contemporary Female Sexualities course introduced me to the ways that applied feminism can enhance the lives of women and ultimately heal society, and since taking that course I wear the feminist badge over my heart. The WGSS program is a community of dynamic students and faculty of which I am proud to be a part.
In the fall I plan to begin my Honors Thesis about representations of the breasts in late 20th-century American women's literature in order to explore women's experience of this highly objectified part of women's bodies. I will continue my involvement with Reflections, the eating disorders awareness group, as the training chair; and I hope to continue my feminist work within WashU's Jewish community.
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