The global landscape of women’s rights presents a striking contrast between nations that champion feminism and those that ...

Kathleen Canning, professor of history, women’s studies and German, discussed how the focus of feminist theory has shifted from an emphasis on the body to defining gender, and ultimately toward the ...

Moscow-born journalist Julia Ioffe examines the women of her country over the past century ...

One snowy day in February 2017, I visited Sokolniki Park in Moscow, where a few hundred Russian women were protesting the ...

"The Future Is NOW" will explore women's cinema from different periods via a combination of classics and world premieres, ...

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry; Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton A quick rundown of the history of ...

While teaching Feminist Studies 101 at Stanford, where she's a founder of the feminist studies program, Freedman was asked to recommend one book that covered all the major issues in feminist ...

A new book traces the history of American feminism and how it became entangled with the abortion-rights movement. There are few words in American politics so hotly debated as “feminist,” a term that ...

A woman of color with a graduation cap. Read more to learn about the intersectionality and how it has affected women’s suffrage. Photo by Wildan Zainul Faki/Pexels March is Women’s History Month, ...

On the first Monday of classes after spring break, cultural critic and author Roxane Gay will be on campus to speak briefly and then engage in a moderated Q&A. Talk begins at 7:30 p.m. followed by Q&A ...

In the final weeks of my pregnancy, I found myself reading and listening to birth stories at a feverish pace. I’d taken a birth education class and felt informed about the mechanics of labor and ...