The area of academic study which has become known as Women’s Studies grew out of the feminist movement in the USA and western Europe in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The movement had close intellectual and political links with the various...

There are several trends in the contemporary cycle of women’s studies in China. One is associated with the All-China Women’s Federation (AGWF), a semi-governmental organization. In 1979, the first research office of the history of...

Courses at any level of education (secondary school, undergraduate or postgraduate) that are intended to emphasise the contributions made—e.g. in history, English literature or philosophy—by women. (See also girls’...

The early decades of the twentieth century were filled with dramatic turmoil and change within United States and abroad, all of which impacted the nascent feminist movement. Two world wars, rapid industrialization, urbanization, and a depression placed...

Women's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. It often includes feminist theory, women's history (e.g. a history of women's suffrage) and social history, women's fiction,...

A public college will pay $5,000 to a women's group that filed suit claiming its free speech rights were violated when campus police removed signs that read "Keep your rosaries off our ovaries."Under a settlement announced Tuesday, the school, Rhode Island College, also has made...

Anita Hill, whose sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas nearly derailed his Supreme Court nomination 16 years ago, said Tuesday she stood by her account of his behavior, disputing Thomas' assertion in a new book that the charges were politically motivated."I stand by my testimony"...

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards told high school students Tuesday that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to treat women as equals to men.During a brief appearance at Merrimack High School, several members of a women's studies class asked the former North...

She is the unlikely embodiment of New York City's cabbies: A college graduate, a woman, barely 5 feet tall, soft-spoken.But as the city's two-day taxi job action headed toward its finish, Bhairavi Desai reaffirmed her prominent role in the city's labor movement and her willingness...