Women's Studies

The documentary Maker: Women Who Make America demonstrates how the individual rebellious acts of women eventually catapulted a powerful social movement that forced the ...

In the 19th century, female writers were growing in numbers but were still not well known, and their works were not at the time ...

Although equality for all people and social justice may seem like universal ideals, every movement for social justice is deeply embedded within the culture ...

Alexander the Great ruled as king of Macedonia, one the largest empires the world had ever seen, that stretched from the Lonian Sea to ...

Since the inception of the United States various groups have struggled and fought for increased human rights. Modern societies view voting and participation in ...

Both Hillary Clinton and Aung San Suu Kyi are international figures that greatly expanded the prestige of women in the public sphere.  Yet, while ...

The two excerpts from the documents “The Redstockings Manifesto” and Listen, America! portray two very distinct political stances on the role of women in ...

During the 1970s women of color and third-world women began to organize on the basis of a shared understanding that their issues were not ...

Many people think that feminism is very much in its nascent stages or, at the very least, has not really been around for more ...

Women’s rights in the Middle East are a major point of contention. Saudi Arabian women are standing up to old traditions to liberate themselves ...