Feminism

Feminist activist and award-winning writer Gloria Steinem is hopeful about the future of feminism and its critical role in shaping society and policy around the world, she told a full house of Vanderbilt community members gathered at Central Library on Nov. 1. Read More

The 2016 Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society is scheduled for March 22, when the Women's Center also will hand out its annual Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Leadership Award, Mentoring Award, and the Mary Jane Werthan Award. Read More

Morality is not declining in the modern world, says Edward Rubin, University Professor of Law and Political Science, in a new book. Instead, a new morality is replacing the previous one. Read More

The NSF has awarded a pair of grants to Vanderbilt researchers for the study of local water conservation policies across the nation and the role of litigation in social activism, respectively. Read More

The divinity school's first community breakfast for the new school year will be a Sept. 24 open forum with its new dean, the Rev. Emilie M. Townes. Read More

Watch video of the Oct. 17 talk “Bless Her Heart – How One Good Southern Girl Changed the World,” by Shelby Knox. Shelby Knox is nationally known as the subject of the Sundance award-winning film, The Education of Shelby Knox, a 2005 documentary chronicling her teenage activism for comprehensive sex education… Read More

Watch video of Catherine Keller speaking on “And Truth – so Manifold!: Transfeminist Entaglements.” Theologian Catherine Keller spoke about the future of feminist theology March 24, 2011, during the Antoinette Brown Lecture at Vanderbilt Divinity School.. Keller is professor of constructive theology at The Theological and Graduate Schools of Drew… Read More

Theologian Catherine Keller will be the speaker for the Divinity School's Antoinette Brown Lecture March 24 at Benton Chapel. Read More