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A is for Absence/A is for Asymmetry: Using Archives to Theorize the Absence of Black Girlhood in Histories of Pedophilia

April 8, 2013 Lunchtime talk by Kelly Ball, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Emory University. In 1899, Dr. Silas Arrowood, a white physician in…

Women’s Basketball Team Fosters Friendship With Heller’s Angels

Vote Lyons today and help the Woman’s Basketball Team win $500 towards its next Special Olympics event.

New Course—WMST 098: Devising Theatre for Social Change

With the support of a grant from the United States Department of Justice, four Wheaton professors have committed to developing a play meant to broaden…

Women’s Studies Mixer

October 22, 2012 Do you want to learn more about Wheaton’s acclaimed Women’s Studies major? Join Women’s Studies majors and faculty members at this semester’s…

Sex, Money, and Equality: Why Should Men and Women Care about this Election?

November 1, 2012 Come and hear Gayle Goldin, Strategic Initiatives Officer at the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, speak about women’s rights in relation to…

Maria Cabral ’12

See what Maria has to say about her internship at the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights.

Maria Cabral ’12 at the Feminist Boot Camp

Wheaton Alumna and Women’s Studies major Maria Cabral spent the first week of her summer in New York at the Feminist Boot Camp summer session.

Maya Ambroise ’13

Maya received a Wheaton Fellowship to intern this past summer at the Chennai Care Foundation, a social service agency for children and their families, located…

Martin Lecture Series presents Kecia Ali

September 27, 2012 The Religion Department welcomes feminist Islamic scholar and Boston University faculty member Kecia Ali, who will present a lecture entitled “Making Muhammad…

Courtney Gilman ’15

Women’s Studies major Courtney Gilman ’15 spent the summer as an intern at the Family Violence Project in Maine.

Welcome Professor Eileraas!

This fall the Women’s Studies program welcomes Karina Eileraas, Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Islamic Studies.

Professors Torres and Yllo to Host an International Conference on Sexual Violence at Wheaton College

Professors Yllo and Torres received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant to host a workshop on global perspectives on sexual violence in marriage at Wheaton.