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"

A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
The Handmaid's Tale
The Feminine Mystique
The Second Sex
Women Who Run With the Wolves
We Should All Be Feminists
The Beauty Myth
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés
We elicit the Wildish Self through specific questions and through examining tales, legends, and mythos. Most times we are able, over time, to find the guiding myth or fairy tale that contains all the instruction a woman needs for her current psychic development. These stories comprise a woman's soul drama. ...more
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.
Aurin Squire

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The Young Women's Committee of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (YWC/CLUW) in Philadelphia has…more
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A book club for people who want to read books about women that meets in the Barnes and Noble in …more
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Let's read together! …more
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doe. Share (in an intimate group) your favorite reads. Emphasis on female authors and subjects.
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