Randolph-Macon Women's Studies and Gender

10/02/2023

For our nursing students

In Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World, author Sarah DiGregorio tells how nurses had great stature centuries ago — and how they got pushed into the background.

05/09/2023

Today is the launch of Victoria Sanford’s newest book. Absolutely brilliant. Sure to be a classic, moving us forward in the discussion of femicide and gender-based violence.

Buy her book here!
https://rfkhro.org/3M70AKu

02/14/2022

02/06/2021

Please check out Randolph-Macon College student Lauren Bellamy’s magazine, Hear Her Speak. You can find it by googling, hear her speak magazine. 

Lauren Bellamy and her co-authors latest issue is live!

10/30/2020

Our alumna just published the third issue of Her Speak Magazine. Check it out by looking up on Google "Hear Her Speak Magazine" (For some reason, Facebook won't allow me to post the link but if you do that, you should find it). Her friends have worked really hard on it and it us so inspiring!!

10/10/2020

The donation, timed to the centennial of the 19th Amendment, doubles the library’s holdings relating to the party, which fought for women’s suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment.

08/19/2020

The celebration of 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment continues!

Today we look at how at a time when the work of leading Black suffragists was often unwelcome, Black women crafted and mobilized images that became critical documents for insisting on racial equity and agency.

Photographs of generations of Black suffragists offer invaluable documents about their thwarted and central roles in the history of women’s rights.

08/19/2020

Today in Feminist History! 100 years since the last state ratified the 19th amendment:

"Then something totally unexpected happened: Representative Harry Burn, the youngest member of the House, who had been wearing a red anti-suffrage rose, voted “Aye” on ratification even though he had just voted to table the measure twice."
Thank you to Ms. Magazine and my friend the late for this piece. Feminist Majority FoundationMajority

The decades-long, nationwide struggle for a ban on s*x discrimination at all polling places hit a major milestone in Nashville this afternoon when the Tennessee House approved—by a single vote—ratification of the Anthony Amendment. The "Volunteer State" has now become the 36th and final one need...

08/15/2020

https://www.facebook.com/341865522634027/posts/1698710216949544/?d=n&substory_index=0

We're thrilled to announce our new special guests for next Tuesday’s allied organization virtual event at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Feminist Majority. Ben Cardin Tammy Baldwin Jackie Speier Carolyn B. Maloney Barbara Lee Rep. Sylvia Garcia

https://electing-equality2020.eventbrite.com/?ref=estw

08/11/2020

From RMC alum :

I am posting my thesis recruitment flyer here to ask if any Black RMC alumnae from the class of 2008-2018 would be willing to participate in my Master’s thesis research. I am conducting 60 to 90 minute interviews and will send participants a $10 Amazon e-gift card in return.

I am studying the long-term effects of Black women students’ experiences in PWI - specifically how their experience has impacted their career development.

If you fit the criteria below and are interested, please email me at [email protected]. The interview will be online.

More information on the research below!