Our Story
Formerly The Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA), Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies South (WGS South) is a feminist organization that actively supports and promotes all aspects of women’s studies at every level of involvement. The organization is committed to scholarship on and activism eliminating oppression and discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity and expression, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. WGS South is one of the oldest Women’s & Gender Studies associations in the U.S., serving Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Virginia.
Past Conferences
Each year, WGS South is honored to work with one of the institutions in the Southeastern region of the United States to host an annual academic conference. The host institution selects the theme, and location, and works alongside the WGS South Board to ensure the conference is a success. Most importantly, the conferences allow WGS South and its membership to further our cause of developing scholarship and encouraging activism to eliminate oppression and discrimination.
Archives
Do you have SEWSA documentation, photos, brochures, programs, or other memorabilia? If so and you would be willing to part with it, we would love to add it to the SEWSA archive at Duke University.
Please send any items to Kelly Wooten at the below address and thank you!
Duke University
Rubenstein Library, 080E
Attn: Kelly Wooten
Box 90185
Durham, NC 27708-0185