At Spelman College in Atlanta, students feel comfortable discussing issues related to race and gender, in spite of recent hostility and legislative attempts to limit such discussion. Spelman is the ...

Centers are not just places, they’re also the relationships between people. They’re speculative tools that allow people to come together, imagine new possibilities, and build something else. UC Santa ...

In this article we consider the example of gender studies as an interdisciplinary field, and argue that gender studies, and women’s studies, from which gender studies developed, has a distinctive ...

For three years, I taught feminist theory to undergraduates while working on my Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. There was a time when Berkeley was the epicenter of radical feminism: ...

The Chaucer Review, Vol. 54, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: New Feminist Approaches to Chaucer (2019), pp. 224-229 (6 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.54.3.0224 ...

During the #MeToo movement, headlines of discrimination and gender inequality have become more frequent. In this Q&A, instructor Michaela Moura-Koçoglu explains how feminist theory plays a key role in ...

When Lizzo took the stage earlier this month to accept the Grammy for record of the year, not only was she the first Black woman to win the award since Whitney Houston in 1994, but she also was one of ...

The legacy of feminist movements — from the call for women’s suffrage to the Women’s Liberation Movement and #MeToo rallies — stand as a reminder that Women’s History Month is a story of more than ...

Some Nigerian women protest violence against women in Lagos, Nigeria. Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The unequal status of women persists, despite various waves of feminist activism around the ...

I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...

It is curious that the discussion of boys’ and men’s well-being turns so quickly and so often to feminism. Why? There is a bit of history here. Male Studies (that is, the study of the experience of ...

Feminism is sometimes referred to as the other "f" word, a term so loaded its meaning is often obscured by the intense emotions around it. “I think ‘identify as feminist’ has morphed into ‘identify ...