Pauline Bart, a sociologist whose pathbreaking studies of women’s depression, gender inequality and violence against women made her a bridge between second-wave feminism and the historically ...

Feminist sociologists claim that while feminist insights have been incorporated in sociological paradigms and women sociologists have been well-integrated into academia, sociological frameworks have ...

A foundational voice in second wave feminist theory, Nancy Chodorow reshaped academic thought around sociology and ...

A new wave of “everyday feminism” is spreading through China’s cities, evading the crackdowns that snuffed out an earlier swell of women’s rights activism and complicating a Communist Party campaign ...

Nancy Whittier’s areas of specialization are gender, social movements and women's movements, social change, sexual violence and sexuality. She teaches courses on gender, sexuality, social change, ...

CU Boulder sociology instructor Laura Patterson details how feminism is influencing female roles in horror films, expanding them far beyond the ‘damsel in distress’ trope Halloween may be over, but it ...

This event marks the re-launch of the Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies research group (REPS) at the Department of Sociology at LSE. The event will be a discussion on the current connections ...

This article analyzes the political contentions on depoliticized campuses through interviews, on-campus media, and propaganda of those involved in the abolition of women’s student councils, the ...

Yige Dong’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, social inequality and social change. Her work examines labor and feminist movements in a global context. She has ...

December 18, 2021. Professor Emerita of Sociology and Founding Director of Women's Studies at Nazareth College. Kay is predeceased by her life partner, Paul J. Burgett, who earned his BM, MA, and PhD ...