Department Quote by Dean Spade

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become…

— Bell Hooks

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and…

— Camille Paglia

College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the developing world.

— Lauren Bush

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western…

— Heather Mac Donald

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about…

— Thomas Sowell

“The education of women, for instance, would naturally be regarded as likely to be harmful, but the government opens schools and universities for women."…

— Anton Chekhov

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if…

— Adrienne Rich

“This link was not coincidental: the movement to create university-level courses for women, still barred from the universities, was an integral part of the…

— Michael David-Fox

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

— Clifford Geertz

I really want to help write women back into history.

— Anita Sarkeesian

The growing role of technology and professional courses in the universities must be tapped to encourage more women to take up the courses and…

— Tamilisai Soundararajan