Overlooked No More: Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian Poet Who Broke Barriers of Sex and Society
Women, Gender & Sexuality is an interdisciplinary department in which students study gender and sexualities with an emphasis on transnational perspectives.
Symposium on the Music of Judith Shatin
Women’s Rights in Democratizing States
Does the Quality of Democracy Matter for Women’s Rights?
A Feminist Approach to Quotas and Comparative Politics
Multiculturalism and Women’s Rights
Exploring the Intersection of Race and Gender in Self-Defense Training, Violence Against Women
My Hips, Butt and Thighs Are My Friends
Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings
Veils and Words
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In the News
In 1989 Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to center black women’s experiences of “compounded” subordination at the nexus of race and sex discrimination.1 In the thirty years since, intersectionality has become a primary framework in women’s studies and a key methodology
In collaboration with Caribbean International Resource Network, Matthew Chin coordinated the Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News (1977-1984), the publication of the anglophone Caribbean's first self-proclaimed gay activist organization, the Gay Freedom Movement in Jamaica.