Articles about 'feminism'

Promotion at work has greater emotional benefit for men than women, says a new study on gender and workplace emotion.

Japan's women are experimenting with new femininities in challenging times, a new book reveals

One hundred and fifty years since the first women were allowed to study at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library will be sharing the unique stories of women who have studied, taught, worked and lived at the University, in its new exhibition The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge.  

Questions of beauty and its politics will be discussed at a summer school and conference  next week (30 August to 3 September 2016). Participants will examine the ways in which perceptions and experiences of race, ethnicity, sexuality and colonialism converge to exert powerful influences on our lives.

In the first of two public presentations, Cambridge’s Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies will examine three great women thinkers who studied violence, and how their work could inform feminism’s response to the global problem of violence towards women today.

In a paper published in the autumn 2014 issue of History Workshop Journal Dr Amy Erickson unravels the fascinating history of the titles used to address women. Her research reveals the subtle and surprising shifts that have taken place in the usage of those ubiquitous M-words. 

On matters of gender, Charles Darwin was supposedly an arch-conservative - but new research suggests that he actively helped women who were striving for an equal footing in society. 

When radical feminists took their cause from Europe to North Africa, the outcome was a deepening of the divides they sought to break down. Social anthropology student Raffaella Taylor-Seymour argues for greater reflection about the meaning of freedom. 

Today (17 November) Douglas Alexander MP will be in Cambridge to launch a book that charts the first 100 years of the city’s Labour Party. Its authors, Ashley Walsh and Richard Johnson, are Cambridge graduates of 2012, born in the Thatcher era but passionate proponents of the Labour cause.

A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s life.