This article seeks to explore the relationship between biography and the many new developments evident in feminist history. Taking as its particular focus the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English feminism, it looks at the divergence between an approach to biography which assumes it...
Leaders in the feminism-in-schools movement recently made history at the inauguralInternational Girls’ Studies Association (IGSA) conferencewhen we were featured in the event’s opening plenary at theUniversity of East Anglia in Norwich, UK from April 7-9. It was the first time that a global ...
in this entry, organic does not mean the same thing as it does at the grocery store, but scientifically, which is having to do with carbon-based biochemistry) is that dosing is everything. Literally anything is harmful in the wrong dose (even good ol’ water) and most things are harmless...
Transcript of my first commentary on the invisibility of teachers as leaders in the media and the need to re-position our voices in political and educational discourse follows below.Continue reading→ Krystle Merchant teaches a high school women’s history class at an all-girls school outside of...
browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government."- Cissy Farenthold Feminist Leaders Will there ever be a female president of the USA? Some day. But will she be pro-feminist like Hillary Clinton? Or an anti-feminist like Sarah Palin. Don't think for a second that ...
Though some women’s rights groups existed before in the U.S., the genesis of the suffrage movement is usually cited as the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in 1848. The movement for suffrage truly took hold after the Civil War, when women’s rights leaders began to push for the incl...
most notably critical race theory and the study ofGay and Lesbian Rights. Moreover, the form of feminist thought that focuses on legal theory draws from feminism in other disciplines, including sociology, political science, history, and literature. Leaders in the feminist jurisprudence camps thus do...
People providing care serve a vital role in our society and we simply could not function without them, and yet, they have been consistently neglected throughout our history. Even today, many carers, especially in one-parent households, are faced with a constant battle to access the resources ...
Feminist.com was a first-of-its-kind central hub for leading feminist thought leaders—e.g. Women’s Media Center, MomsRising, Nobel Women’s Initiative—and the first official web home for leading women’s organizations—e.g. Ms. Foundation, V-Day, Girls Inc., Equality Now. It was a...
In addition, feminist theater often challenges the patriarchy and highlights injustices. Who founded feminist theater? Feminist theater became popular in the 1970s, during the second wave of feminism. Some early leaders of feminist theater, during the aforementioned time, include Martha Boesing, ...