How can Gender Studies majors learn about transgender history, rights, and activism beyond the college classroom? How can students apply their knowledge of feminist theory and methods to practical problems? What does being an ally and an activist look like? These are the questions we are asking and answering in creating a Transgender Studies internship program…
To celebrate the 150th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder in 2017, the Pioneer Girl Project of the South Dakota State Historical Society has released a new book on the writer’s legacy.
Putting Women in a Man’s World: Making a Conscious Effort to Include Women in Museum Exhibits Leah Tookey, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum History museums are created to tell a certain story about a place, a time, a people, or a way of life. How we tell that story Read more
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a new series featuring abstracts for past and upcoming conference presentations. Publishing abstracts on this blog enables us to share ongoing research far beyond the boundaries of the conferences at which these presentations are given. If you find an abstract interesting, we Read more
New Year, New Way to Contribuute. Recycle your conference abstracts here!
Did You Miss Us? Did you notice that we missed our last bi-weekly post? The Rural Women’s Studies blog team works hard to recruit contributions from a wide range of people interested in Rural Women’s Studies. Unfortunately, it seems that we’re all too busy researching and serving rural women to write about Read more
All too often, Rural Women’s Studies are marginalized within more established disciplines and research areas.
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The Rural Women’s Studies Association and this Rural Women’s Studies blog seek to highlight both research and activism related to rural women around the world. This week, instead of our typical blog post, we have chosen to highlight an upcoming campaign that seeks to promote local activism around the globe to Read more