Featured series 
Tag: Feminism
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Arts & Culture
Visions of power in ‘Barbie,’ Beyoncé, Taylor Swift
Women entertainers are dominating the summer. Lecturer in women, gender, and sexuality discusses the forces at play.
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Campus & Community
‘I wanted to warn future social movements that listening only to one’s own side can generate dangerous amounts of unrealism’
Jane Mansbridge, one of the world’s leading scholars of democratic theory talks about her “jagged trajectory” toward success.
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Arts & Culture
Baby, you can drive my car
Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack will talk about the Beatles and feminism on Dec. 12 at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Feminism and fairy tales
Radcliffe film series spotlights the feminine power in many traditional fables and folk tales.
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Campus & Community
Islamic studies scholar addresses myths and mores behind the veil
Islamic studies scholar Celene Ibrahim discussed the myths and realities of Muslim Feminism at the year’s second Diversity Dialogue.
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Arts & Culture
For Ana Tijoux, hip-hop is home
Growing up, Ana Tijoux didn’t know where to call home. As the France-born-and-bred daughter of Chilean parents living in political exile, she felt conflicted about her identity — until she found hip-hop. Tijoux first heard the music in the inner neighborhoods of Paris while accompanying her mother on her social-work rounds to immigrant families from…
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Arts & Culture
Blended voices, each with a personal charge
Five poets are celebrated in “‘A Language to Hear Myself’: Feminist Poets Speak,” a Schlesinger Library exhibit running from Feb. 29 to June 17, with an accompanying performance March 1.
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Arts & Culture
Chicago on Chicago
Judy Chicago speaks about feminism and art education at the Radcliffe Institute. A video of the discussion is available.
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Nation & World
Feminism without perfection
Harvard Business School students gathered Tuesday evening to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first class of female M.B.A.s. But as Barnard College President Debora Spar reminded the group, women at the top of the ladder still face hurdles — including their impossible demands on themselves.
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Campus & Community
Immersed in the body politic
Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.
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Nation & World
Untold war stories
Women’s voices have long been absent from stories of war — and from the process of peacemaking. A group of women scholars and filmmakers gathered at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Oct. 4 to explore those untold stories in conjunction with the new PBS series “Women, War, and Peace.”
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Campus & Community
Honors among women
Tina Tchen ’78, chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama, encouraged young women to be part of a “vanguard of change,” and Harvard College senior Madeleine Ballard touted everyday leadership during the 14th Annual Women’s Leadership Awards.
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Nation & World
Then and now
In conjunction with Radcliffe Day (May 28), a panel examines the history and present of feminism, looking at what has changed and what obstacles remain.
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Arts & Culture
Rebels to some, achievers to others
For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.
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Arts & Culture
Appreciating Billie Jean King’s contribution to second-wave feminism
In a stately room in the Barker Center, flanked by portraits of famous men, Billie Jean King holds court. Not physically. She’s the topic of discussion, the name on everyone’s lips. One would think this were the after party of her notorious 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match with Bobby Riggs, the match she…
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Arts & Culture
Panel discusses paucity of designing women
Women in Design, a student group at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) that aims to increase the visibility of women in the field, kicked off its four-part spring symposium, “Progress in Process,” Thursday night (March 13) with a panel discussion on where women in architecture are now and where they are headed. Department…
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Health
Feminist pioneers discuss women’s health policy
More than three decades after publication of the taboo-shattering book on female health, “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” activists are still struggling to bring attention to women’s health issues amid the national debate over medical insurance coverage, said one of the book’s authors and feminist pioneer Judy Norsigian.
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Arts & Culture
Title IX talk shows knotty issues are alive and well
More than 30 years after its enactment, Title IX is still a topic of hot debate.
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Arts & Culture
Modern Girl Project views women between the wars
When American women won the right to vote in 1919, the logical question was, What next? Suffragists had the answer ready: full enjoyment of civil and domestic life for women, equal to that of men. But suffragists found out that what was next was not much. It would be decades before American women gained anything…