The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

  • American history textbooks highlight important activists of the antebellum era such as prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and women’s right leader. Yet, the voices of black women activists...
  • The goal of "Junot Díaz: A Symposium" is to assess the literary and cultural significance of Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican American writer Junot Díaz. Junot Díaz’s short fiction, novel, essays, and interviews are changing the landscape of...
  • The band, Isle of Klezbos, may or may not be composed entirely of lesbians – they merely hint that this is true without saying anything explicitly. This playful sense of ambiguity helps define the group as artists. An enchanting and soulful klezmer...
  • The Bauls of the Bengali region (India’s state of West Bengal and the nation of Bangladesh), have a rich heterodox religious tradition that draws from Tantric Buddhism, Tantric Hinduism, Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Nath Yoga, and Sufi Islam.  The profound...
  • If the nearly ten billion dollars spent by the tobacco industry in 2008 to encourage Americans to smoke doesn’t shock you, perhaps the story the ads tell will. It is a story that has special relevance for young women and teenage girls and feminists...

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Founded in 1974, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University creates knowledge and seeks to implement change to promote gender equality. Our current focus is Moving Beyond the Stalled Gender Revolution. We are bringing together an intellectually diverse group of scholars to provide new insights into the barriers to women's advancement and to propose novel and workable solutions to advancing gender equality

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