Most Read This Week In Womens Studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective. It critiques and explores societal norms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social inequalities.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Womens Studies"

The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts

Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men

Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America – A Political History of Reproductive Freedom

Someone Other Than a Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman's Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

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Quotes Tagged “Womens Studies”

“ Misogyny was born of fear of women. It spawned the ideology of male superiority. But this was ideology, not statement of fact; as such, it could not be confirmed, but was open to constant doubt. Male status was not immutable. Myths of matriarchies and Amazons societies showed female dominance. Three of the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes show women in successful opposition to men. ... These were the nightmares of victors: that someday the vanquished would arise and treat their ex-masters ...more ”
― Sarah B. Ponderous

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“ All the men added together made the solid world-- they were the marbles in the jar, and women were whatever sand or water or air claimed the space left between them. That's how I saw things as a young woman, that was my women's studies. Now I've come to know that women are like vodka poured over men, who melt away like ice cubes. ...more ”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell

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