Women's studies

voice and unfortunately, they have become the victims of many unsolved irrational violence attacks. Furthermore, a large and pertinent element to this problem would be the presence felt of the Indian Act. This led to the neglecting of Aboriginal women’s legal status as an Indian. The law had made women minorities; In order to obtain an Indian status, women would need to either marry an Aboriginal, or be the direct descendant of their father. In the majority of Aboriginal cultures, women once held

reference to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team was in line with his “close-to-the edge style of humor” that he has made over the past 30 years. Don was well known for his communication style directed at anyone regardless of “age, gender, body type, political

Gender inequality has been a crucial issue throughout the years all around the world for the past few decades. Women are mistreated and often oppressed by patriarchal societies. Women’s rights are often dismissed and it is believed that women are not capable of being independent which has highly affects women population. A group of women in Nicaragua organized movements to fight over land ownership by men. They are seeking plots of land to farm in order to contribute to the food security of their

Feminism is the public support of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Some say that it structures relations between people. We need feminism because we deserve equal pay and jobs. Also, we live in a world where women continually being slut-shamed. This article by Stevi Jackson is about the start of women's studies and how women's voices were belittled. Stevi Jackson is a professor of sociology and the director of Center for Women's Studies at the University of York. She has

that time period, but as a reaction to the disregard of women and women’s issues in the study of male-based crime. The criminology field was an androcentric and, therefore, biased field of study (Daly and Chesney-Lind 507-508). Feminist criminology developed after the second-wave of feminism. This wave brought forth a broad range of women’s issues to light, such as social rights and justice in the public and private spheres. When women’s offending started to increase, the general public became worried

toward women’s rights and the equality between men and women. Dorothy Smith (born July 6, 1926), a Canadian sociologist with research interests, besides in sociology, in many disciplines including women's studies, psychology, and educational studies, coined this term when she studied the patterns of social inequality based on gender (http://schoolworkhelper.net/). Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property rights, voting rights); for women's right to

Prior to and since the 1977 conference several institutions established their own committees and centers to improve women's status in the arts and humanities. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, established the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities (CWAH) through its Institute for Women's Leadership in 2006. The mission of the CWAH is to recognize, advance, and document the intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural contributions of diverse communities of women in the arts and humanities

1. Alexander LL, Alexander WJ, La Rosa JH, Bader H, Garfield S. Introduction to women’s health. In: Corrigan L, McAllister C, eds. New Dimensions in Women’s Health. 7th ed. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 2017:3-17. This chapter really encapsulates what “women’s health” means and how it relates to society. We can see how throughout history, women have fought for both their rights and their health, so this chapter goes through and gives the readers examples of historical points in time

The Growing Battle for Women's Equality For generations women have been fighting for equality in our country. Although there have been many advances in this movement women are still treated unequally today. One of the most critical problems with women's rights today deals with women in the work place. Human rights violations against women must be documented, publicized, and stopped. Human rights violations against women have for too long been denied the attention and concern of international

The Forerunner was a monthly journal edited and written by Charlotte Perkins Gillman which sought to encourage women to think independently in hopes of strengthening the movement of women's rights against the predominantly male run society of the 1900’s. It ran for seven volumes, starting with the November 1909 issue and ceased publication shortly before 1917. In this article, Gillman, known for her defiant attitude towards patriarchy, reveals the motives which inspired her to write The Yellow Wallpaper