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Women’s Magic Hour: A Q&A Starring Donna Kornhaber

February 8, 2018 by Rachel White

Since its humble beginnings at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, when a seat cost a mere $5 (equivalent to roughly $72 today), the Academy Awards have celebrated the creative pursuits of some of history’s most notable characters. But in a year marked by controversy surrounding a disturbing number of sexual assault accusations and increasing […]

Some 2,000 women gather outside office of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, to protest

The Many Voices of Feminism

November 11, 2009 by Jennifer McAndrew Leave a Comment

Scholars discuss the most important challenges facing women in the 21st century In the post-feminist era of the 21st century, are the aims and goals of feminism still relevant? Will feminism survive the rush to globalization? What universal lessons can we learn from the unique ways women around the world have advanced their concerns? These […]

A suffragist marches in a protest parade

Citizen Jane

September 8, 2009 by Tracy Mueller

Constitution helps define women’s civic membership and creates social roles Chile, Germany, the Philippines and Liberia. What do these countries have in common? A woman holds the top political office in each country. Now, name five female politicians in the United States government—other than Hillary Rodham Clinton or Condoleezza Rice. Having trouble? Americans take pride […]

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Event Spotlights: Fall 2008

September 23, 2008 by Jennifer McAndrew

Crisis in Darfur: Nigerian Nobelist Wole Soyinka Urges International Community to Remember the ‘Tree of Forgetfulness’ When Tola Mosadomi, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies and affiliate of the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, was an undergraduate student at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, she sometimes saw poet Wole Soyinka walking […]

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