Women Studies

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New Faculty: Brie McLemore (September 2, 2025)
Some Interesting Classes in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies with space for Autumn 2017 (September 7, 2017)
Passing of Nancy Hartsock (April 28, 2015)

Related Research

Rotem, N. (2023). The world in a Geranium pot: Female paranoia and love of detail in Schor, Beauvoir and Arendt. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 49(2), 203-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537221149379
Pierobon, Chiara. "Ending Gender-Based Violence in Kyrgyzstan: Reflections on the Spotlight Initiative" [with Aliia Maralbaeva] In: Mihr, A., Sorbello, P. and Weiffen, B. (eds.) Securitisation and Democracy in Eurasia. Springer: Cham, 2023, pp. 201-215, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16659-4_13.
Joshi, Devin & Goehrung, Ryan. (2018) "Conceptualizing and Measuring Women's Political Leadership: From Presence to Balance." Politics & Gender 14(3): 350-375.
Amanda Clayton (Dye). 2014. "Beyond Presence: Electoral Gender Quotas, Female Leadership, and Symbolic Representation." Diss., U of Washington.
Rachel A. Cichowski. "Judicial Politics, Gender and the Courts." in The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics, edited by G. Waylen, K. Celis, J. Kantola and L. Weldon, Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rachel A. Cichowski. "Legal Mobilization, Transnational Activism and Gender Equality in the EU." Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 28, no. 2, 2013, pp. 209-227.
Ahmed Zaki, Hind. 2012. Law as a tool for empowering women within marital relations: A Case Study of Paternity Lawsuits in Egypt. Cairo, Cairo Papers in Social Science Series 31(2): The American University in Cairo Press.
Cichowski, Rachel A. Review of Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments, by Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Sharol Wolchik. Slavic Review, vol. 69, no. 4, 2011, pp. 982–983.
Rachel A. Cichowski. "Women's Rights and Supranational Constitutionalism," in International Institutions, edited by J. Goldstein and R. Steinberg, Thousand Oaks CA, Sage Publications, 2010.
Rachel A. Cichowski. "Women’s Rights, the European Court and Supranational Constitutionalism." Law & Society Review, 38, 2004, pp. 489-512.