Posts for the Topic women's studies

New Exhibit: Gender Studies Isn't New

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 by Danielle Robichaud

On June 28, 2023 a Waterloo professor and two students were injured in a hate motivated attack during a class examining gender. The attack occurred in a climate of increasingly aggressive rhetoric in the public arena rooted in bias against transgender and gender non-conforming communities. This wasn’t the first-time gender-motivated violence occurred on a Canadian campus: In 1989, fourteen women were killed in an engineering class at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in an anti-feminist shooting.

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Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery, 1796

Monday, March 7, 2016 by Martha Lauzon

Alexander Hamilton (1739–1802) was a professor of midwifery at Edinburgh University. He was a successful practitioner and writer on midwifery, and contributed to the establishment of the Lying-in Hospital (later the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital) in 1791. Today we look at his Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery, from 1796.

WS101, meet Elizabeth Smith Shortt

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 by Martha Lauzon

Last term, Special Collections & Archives received 150 Women's Studies 101 students to help us transcribe the notebooks of Alice Riggs Hunt.

New exhibit : 16 days of activism against gender violence

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 by Martha Lauzon

This year the Library is participating for the first time in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, from November 25th (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) to December 10th (International Human Rights Day).

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WS101, meet Alice Riggs Hunt

Monday, September 28, 2015 by Martha Lauzon

This week and last, our reading room has been a busy place, as 150 Women's Studies 101 students have flocked to the Archives to help transcribe Alice Riggs Hunt's notebooks and cards.

Women's Studies collections

Friday, September 4, 2015 by Martha Lauzon

For the past year Special Collections & Archives has been working to provide better access to our women’s studies collections through redescribing and digitizing the materials, as well as making our finding aids for these collections available online.