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"

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

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

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity

Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

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

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

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West

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

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

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today – A Trailblazing Media History

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

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

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

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

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

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

The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans

Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

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

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London

The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

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

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield

Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad

She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man's World

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973

Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women

Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men

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

A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

An American Covenant: A Story of Women, Mysticism, and the Making of Modern America

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

The Gift of Presence: a mindfulness guide for women

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity

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Quotes Tagged “Womens Studies”

“ Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the conflict and assigning each aspect to a different character. Marjie Rynearson, for instance, wrote an award-winning play, Jenny, about the meeting and reconciliation of two women: the mother of a murder victim and the mother of the murderer. Within the dialogue between the two characters she sought to resolve two sets of problems: the rage ...more ”
― Linda Austin, What's Holding You Back 8 Critical Choices For Women's Success

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“ There was a time when my life seemed so painful to me that reading about the lives of other women writers was one of the few things that could help. I was unhappy, and ashamed of it; I was baffled by my life. For several years in my early thirties, I would sit in my armchair reading books about these other lives. Sometimes when I came to the end, I would sit down and read the book through from the beginning again. I remember an incredible intensity about all this, and also a kind of furtiveness— ...more ”
― Kennedy Fraser, Ornament and Silence

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