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Call for Papers: Thinking Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute, July 6-11, 2014

Thinking Transnational Feminisms Summer InstituteJuly 7-11, 2014Columbus, Ohio Thinking Transnational Feminisms is a collaborative five-day summer institute organized by and for feminist…

WGSS Professor to co-edit Society and Space- Environment and Planning D

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Mary Thomas has been a review editor of the journal since 2007, and has been central in getting the review part of this open site up and…

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WGSS Professor to co-edit philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism

philoSOPHIA is an international, peer-reviewed journal for scholarship that engages the rich traditions of feminist theory and continental philosophy, both broadly construed. The journal aims…

WGSS Ph.D. Student Publishes Article

Amanda Rossie's article, "Wrecked and Redeemed: Religio-Political Pedagogy and MTV's 16 and Pregnant," was recently published in an anthology titled, Girls' Sexualities and the Media (Mediated…

WGSS Professor Elected President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists

Wendy Smooth, associate professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and senior research fellow with Ohio State’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, has…

Professor's Project Sparks Girls' Interest in Engineering

Over the past 50 years, women have made significant inroads into historically male-dominated fields such as business, law, and medicine. In science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM),…

'Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies' to be published at Ohio State

 Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies– one of the premier publications in the field of feminist/gender studies -- will be published at The Ohio State University for the next five years starting…

Visiting Distinguished Professor: bell hooks

bell hooks, the internationally recognized feminist scholar, will be in residence at Ohio State this year as Visiting Distinguished Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She will be…

Departmental Name Change

In May 2010, the Women’s Studies faculty voted to change our name to the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and by the end of October the change was approved by all levels of The…