WThe Women's March was a protest that was held on January 18, 2020 and October 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C. and across the United States. Many people in countries around the world also participated in the women's global march. The demonstration follows similar protests in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
WThe Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) is a nexus of feminist thought, activism, and collaboration for scholars and activists. Since its founding in 1971, BCRW has promoted women's and social justice issues to its local communities at Barnard College and within New York City. It is a member organization of The National Council for Research on Women.
WA Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power is a 2014 book by former US president Jimmy Carter. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the book as "A tour de force of the global abuse and manipulation of women" and commended Carter's presentation of statistical data.
WCanadian Unitarian Universalist Women's Association (CUUWA) is a Canadian Unitarian Universalist women's rights organization that is an associate member of the Canadian Unitarian Council. The association wants to raise awareness for women and close the gender gap. For example, research has shown that in businesses, women have less than one-fifth of a chance to get promoted and move up the company.
WCapitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism is a 1978 anthology about socialist feminism edited by Zillah R. Eisenstein.
WChanging of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions is a non-fiction book written by Naomi Goldenberg.
WChicks with Guns is a photo-book created by Lindsay McCrum. Lindsay McCrum is a fine arts photographer, and resides in both New York and California. Ms. McCrum received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
WComing to Power: Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M is a 1981 book edited by members of the lesbian feminist S/M organisation Samois. It is an anthology of lesbian S/M writings. It was a founding work of the lesbian BDSM movement.
WThe Democratic Organization of Iranian Women is women's wing of the Tudeh Party of Iran.
WLovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth was a Finnish feminist and writer. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth was born in Nastola, one of the 16 children of an aristocratic family. She was born to Gustaf Adolf Ehrnrooth, a hero of the Finnish War. John Casimir Ehrnrooth was her brother. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth never married, and dedicated her life to helping the women and the poor.
WThe Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus (EEWC) is a group of evangelical Christian feminists founded in 1974. It was originally named the Evangelical Women's Caucus (EWC) because it began as a caucus within Evangelicals for Social Action, which had issued the "Chicago Declaration". Its mission is to "support, educate, and celebrate Christian feminists from many traditions." It favored passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, encourages the ordination of women, and has called for gender-inclusive language in all communications. The word ecumenical was added to the organization's name in 1990 in order "to reflect the increasingly inclusive nature and the many traditions of [the organization's] membership".
WFeminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law is a 1987 book by feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon. The book is a collection of essays by MacKinnon delivered during the 1980s, in which she makes a radical feminist critique of pornography and liberal feminism.
WFeminist security studies is a subdiscipline of security studies that draws attention to gendered dimensions of security.
WFeminist Theory: From Margin to Center is a 1984 book about feminist theory by bell hooks. The book confirmed her importance as a leader in radical feminist thought. The "margin" in the title refers to Hooks' description of black women as existing on the margins and their lives hidden from mainstream American society as well as not being part of mainstream feminist theory. The book was published in French in 2017.
WGirls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good is a book by the American conservative writer Wendy Shalit published by Random House in 2007. The book is an investigation into an emerging new movement of young women rediscovering their capacity for innocence.
WGoddess Remembered is a 1989 Canadian documentary on the Goddess movement and feminist theories surrounding Goddess worship in Old European culture according to Marija Gimbutas, and Merlin Stone's 1976 book When God Was a Woman.
WCatharina Joanna Maria Halkes was a Dutch theologian and feminist, notable for having been the first Dutch professor of feminism and Christianity, at the Radboud University Nijmegen from 1983 to 1986. A Roman Catholic who was originally schooled in Dutch language and literature, she became active in the women's movement within the church, and gained a measure of notoriety when she was forbidden to address Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Netherlands in 1985. She is considered the founding mother of feminist theology in the Netherlands.
WHarpies and Quines was a feminist magazine founded by seven women living and working in Scotland including the journalist and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch and published in Scotland between 1992 and 1994. The founder women were two community workers, two journalists, an illustrator, a film editor and a graphic artist, a film and television art director. It was launched on a wave of enthusiasm, goodwill, donations and unpaid efforts of a great number of women.
WInclusion and Democracy is a 2002 book by Iris Marion Young, published by Oxford University Press. In the book, Young considers democracy in a multicultural society, and recommends paths to more inclusive engagement in democratic politics.
WIshtar Rising, fully titled Ishtar Rising: Why the Goddess Went to Hell and What to Expect Now That She's Returning, is a book by Robert Anton Wilson published in 1989. It is a revision of Wilson's earlier The Book of the Breast, first published by Playboy Press in 1974, which contained many images not present in the current version. In it Wilson discusses his ideas on the female form, feminism and ancient Goddess worship.
WJam'iyat-e Nesvân-e Vatankhâh (1922–1933), was one of the most active organizations in the Women's rights movement in Iran that formed after the Persian Constitutional Revolution. The Society was set up in 1922 under the name, Jamʿīyat-e taraqqī-e neswān, by Mohtaram Eskandari, director of the state school number 5 for girls, who was disappointed with the results of the revolution for women, Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh, Mastoureh Afshar, and other women's rights activists.
WLandscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives is a non-fiction book by Carolyn Steedman, published by Rutgers University Press in 1987. The book is an autobiographical class analysis which looks at the author's working class upbringing in 1950s London.
WManifa is an annual feminist demonstration organized in connection with International Women's Day on March 8th in various parts of Poland. In Warsaw it is organized by the informal group Alliance of Women. The name comes from the slang abbreviation for the word manifestacja, used in this form by the anti-government opposition in the 1980s. In 2007 the Manifa was called the "March of Women's Solidarity" and emphasizing the commonalities of women's struggles. It represents the power of women how they have the moral right women have to obtain the final say in their decisions. The rights that women have fought so hard to make a reality and on June 4, 2009, was the twentieth anniversary in Poland for the celebration of freedom of speech and will of the people.
WMinnesota Women's Press is an American feminist monthly magazine founded in 1985, and as such is one of the oldest continuously published feminist platforms in the US. Since 2017, it is published by Mikki Morrissette.
WClaudine Monteil is a French writer, women's rights specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat.
WNot Without My Husband is a book written by Justine Harun-Mahdavi. The book is the memoir of Justine and her life as a German woman with her Persian (Iranian) husband, Masoud Harun-Mahdavi, in Iran before and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. It responds to the negative account of Iran in Betty Mahmoody's bestselling 1987 memoir, Not Without My Daughter.
WThe Pakistan Women Muslim League is a political party in Pakistan. Founded in December 2013, it was the first women's political party in the country. Rubina Shaheen elected The ist Chairperson of the party The party's oath-taking ceremony was held on 5 January 2014 in Peshawar. The primary goals of the party are to ensure women's political rights, legal rights, and gender equality.
WPayam-e-Zan is a women's magazine published in Afghanistan by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Literally translated, the name means "Women's Message." It began as a quarterly publication in Persian/Pushto and Urdu that focused on women's rights and opposing fundamentalism with strong socialist leanings. Over time, it became a major source for news on politics and society more generally. It is now an online magazine as part of www.rawa.org.
WA Portrait of Marginality is a 1977 book edited by Marianne Githens and Jewel Prestage on the political behavior of American women. It is an anthology of 22 papers on women's participation or lack of it in American politics. It includes a section specifically on African American women in politics.
WEugénie Potonié-Pierre was a French feminist who founded the Federation of French Feminist Societies in 1892.
WPurplewashing is a compound word modeled on the term whitewash. The prefix "purple" is associated with the belief of Feminism while the verb "wash" is used to denounce the co-opting strategies that use minority rights to maintain or enhance structural forms of discrimination.
WThe Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography is a 1978 non-fiction book by Angela Carter. The book is a feminist re-appraisal of the work of the Marquis de Sade, a work later criticized by the radical feminist theorist Andrea Dworkin in her 1981 book Pornography: Men Possessing Women. Unlike Dworkin, Carter sees de Sade as being the first writer to see women as more than mere breeding machines, as more than just their biology and, as such, finds him liberating.
WSally Heathcote: Suffragette is a 2014 graphic novel about a fictional suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot. In 2015, it was included in a list of the "top 10 books about revolutionaries" published by The Guardian.
WScapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation is a 2000 book by the Jewish-American radical feminist author and activist Andrea Dworkin.
WThe Second Stage is a 1981 book by American feminist, activist and writer Betty Friedan, best known for her earlier book The Feminine Mystique.
WThe tART Collective was an intersectional feminist and anti-racist art collective in New York City. Founded in 2004 and running until 2020, the group was the longest-running feminist art collective in the city.
WVag Magazine is an American feminist themed comedy web series starring Kate McKinnon, Jocelyn Guest, Nicole Drespel, and Sarah Claspell.Leila Cohan-Miccio and Caitlin Tegart are the comedic duos who came up with the idea and wrote Vag Magazine, filmed at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The six-episode web series directed by Zach Neumeyer and produced by Nicole Shabtai.
WWomaNews was a radical feminist newspaper that began in Gainesville, Florida in the 1970s before moving production to New York, New York.
WArchif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive Wales (AMC/WAW) is a charity which works to identify and preserve resources for the study of women in the history of Wales.
WThe Women's History of the World (ISBN 0-586-08886-5) is a book about women's history written by British author Rosalind Miles, first published in 1988. Later editions, including the paperback versions of the book, were titled Who Cooked The Last Supper: The Women's History of the World. The book examines the roles of women, their representation, and their power through history.