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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Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival

Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

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

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

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

Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

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

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

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

The Portable Feminist Reader (Penguin Classics)

No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

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

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

Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men

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

Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West

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

Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

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

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Quotes Tagged “Womens Studies”

“ Shutting down behind self-pity and secret shame; sacrificing themselves to childish mothers and selfish men; vaguely yearning, self-medicating; painting someone else's pictures; obediently tracing the magic circle. afraid, entranced. There are so many different ways to drown. ...more ”
― Kennedy Fraser, Ornament and Silence

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“ We preach body confidence, but we live in a culture that doesn’t quite know what to do with a woman who actually likes the way she looks. It’s considered arrogant and even unfeminine. Think of the recent hit One Direction song that made the claim that a woman was beautiful precisely because she didn’t know she was beautiful. We need to question a culture that tells women they must be beautiful to be loved, but that they shouldn’t actually feel beautiful or we’ll find them conceited. ”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

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