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on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 9:20am
In February, Karen Offen gave a keynote address at the Swiss conference, “Success Without Impact? The Women’s Liberation Movement in post – ’68 Societies,” at the University of Bern. She also... -
on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 8:43am
American history textbooks highlight important activists of the antebellum era such as prominent black abolitionist Frederick... -
on Friday, May 4, 2012 - 12:06pm
What do women see in the mirror that stares back at them? For some, the body can be a battleground – a site of struggle to wrest control of the female form's portrayal in popular society. While... -
on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 12:55pm
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on Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:20am
In the Middle Ages, religious texts dismissed women as an afterthought of creation, inferior creatures of disobedience and sin. Recent research by medieval historian, Professor Dyan Elliott,... -
on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 8:47am
Religious texts and traditions have been used to motivate social change or to justify a belief-based status quo — based on how these texts have been interpreted. According to feminist poet and... -
on Monday, February 27, 2012 - 1:01pm
Harlem in the 1920s is known for its creative outpouring of art, music, and literature. A consciously political movement, the... -
on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 11:19am
In 1971, less than six percent of professors were women and only nine women held tenure at Stanford University. Three students dared to question, “Where were the women’s voices on Stanford’s campus... -
on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 11:54am
Last month marked the anniversary of a little-known event. In October 1906, Mary Kelly, a working-class refugee of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire, unlawfully occupied a one-room...
