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.

See also gender studies.
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New Releases Tagged "Womens Studies"

Transcendent: A Memoir
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Labor: One Woman's Work
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Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
The Handmaid's Tale
The Feminine Mystique
The Second Sex
We Should All Be Feminists
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
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Trista Hendren
Women HAVE a history that has been systematically suppressed. Our collective spirituality has largely been tainted to fit the needs of men and those in power. This has a profound effect on the self-esteem of girls and the women they become. This influence can be seen in their life choices, partners and financial security for the rest of their lives. It also has an effect on the way their future partners will view them - and ultimately treat them. Our girls deserve better. The time to introduce f ...more
Trista Hendren

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
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