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Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies News
  • White House in the autumn. Photo by Tom Fisk, courtesy of Canva

    Post-Election Pizza and Discussion

    October 25, 2024

    Join us November 6th for a post-election discussion led by the WGSS coordinator. Open to all viewpoints.

  • Beyond the 9-5 art installation at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Art Gallery. ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Photo by Abby Druckenmiller

    Beyond the 9-5

    October 11, 2024

    "Beyond the 9-5" art exhibit featured 90 pieces by 50 ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ employees, showcasing faculty and staff talents beyond their usual roles.

  • Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program coordinator Carol Gray draws a heart with pink washable chalk paint on a concrete walkway of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ campus, spreading positivity for Suicide Prevention Month.

    Chalk the Walk

    September 23, 2024

    The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program held "Chalk the Walk" on Sept. 18, spreading positive messages across campus for Suicide Prevention Month.

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Organizations

 

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Feminist Majority Foundation

 

The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women’s equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists of all genders are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

 

Lambda Legal

 

Lambda Legal’s lawyers have won precedent-setting civil rights cases on everything from marriage equality to expressions of gender identity to health care discrimination. We have made legal history since day one, winning our right to incorporate. We then got to work using our knowledge of the law to fight for our community’s lives and dignity.

 

 Lambda Legal

National Abortion Rights League

 

The 4 million members of NARAL Pro-Choice America fight for reproductive freedom for every body. Each day, we organize and mobilize to protect that freedom by fighting for access to abortion care, birth control, paid parental leave, and protections from pregnancy discrimination.

 

NARAL Pro Choice America
National Center for Lesbian Rights

National Center for Lesbian Rights

 

With a commitment to racial and economic justice and our community’s most vulnerable, NCLR is a leader at the forefront of advancing civil and human rights for LGBTQ individuals and their families through impact litigation, public policy, and public education.

 

 National Women's History Alliance

National Women's History Alliance

 

The National Women’s History Alliance, founded in 1980 as a non-profit educational organization, is committed to ensuring women’s history becomes mainstream. The NWHA is a catalyst, promoter of women’s history in K-12, content provider, and creator of a myriad of activities promoting women as leaders and influencers. The NWHA leads both local and national efforts, consults, publishes, distributes, inspires, advises, and networks with a wide variety of institutions and activists in the field. NWHA has a nationwide presence as the number one resource for information and educational material about the unfolding roles of women in American history.

 

Sociologists for Women in Society

Sociologists for Women in Society

 

Sociologists for Women in Society is a nonprofit professional feminist organization dedicated to (1) encouraging the development of sociological feminist theory and scholarship, (2) transforming the academy through feminist leadership, career development, and institutional diversity, (3) promoting social justice through local, national, and international activism and (4) supporting the publication and dissemination of cutting edge feminist social science.

 

 

 

Sources

Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture

Manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s

H-Women Discussion List

H-Women's purpose is to enable historians more easily to discuss research interests, teaching methods, and the state of the field and historiography of women's studies.

Resources on Gender in the Academic Workplace

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Women's Studies Online Resources

Women's Studies Online Resources will help you find information-rich, high-quality web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues; women- or gender-related e-mail lists; women's studies files from the WMST-L File Collection; links to women's studies programs around the world; financial aid for women; and more.

Media

 

ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Womens Network

 

Information about how ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Women rock

 

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Funding

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Scholarships for Women

 

Look here for a variety of suggested pages with scholarship opportunities tailored specifically for women.