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Academic Activism

Books & Chapters

  • Crossley, A. D. (2017). Multicultural sororities, women’s centers, and the institutional fields of feminist activism. In Finding feminism: Millennial activists and the unfinished gender revolution (pp. 61-90). NYU Press.
  • Hames, M. (2018). Lesbian students in the academy. In Z. Matebeni, S. Monro, & V. Reddy (Eds.), Queer in Africa: LGBTQI identities, citizenship, and activism [eBook]. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315406749
  • Mayock, E. C., & Radulescu, D. (Eds.). (2010). Feminist activism in academia: Essays on personal, political and professional change. McFarland & Company, Inc.
  • Naples, N.A., & Bojar, K. (Eds.). (2002). Teaching feminist activism: Strategies from the field (1st ed.). Routledge.
  • Sudbury, J., & Okazawa-Rey, M. (2009). Activist scholarship: Antiracism, feminism, and social change. Routledge.
  • Weatherall, R. (2021). Reimagining academic activism: Learning from feminist anti-violence activists. Bristol University Press.
  • Zimmerman, B. (2002). The past in our present: Theorizing the activist project of women’s studies. In R. Wiegman (Ed.), Women’s studies on its own: A next wave reader in institutional change (pp. 183-190). Duke University Press.

Journal Articles

  • Baker, A. A., & Ryalls, E. (2014). Technologizing feminist pedagogy: Using blog activism in the gender studies classroom. Feminist Teacher, 25(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.5406/femteacher.25.1.0023
  • Baker, C. N., Dove-Viebahn, A., Berger, M. T., Rios, C., & Jolna, K. (2020). Amplifying our voices: Feminist scholars writing for the public. Feminist Formations, 32(2), 29-51. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765185
  • Bart, P.B., Bentz, L., Clausen, J., Costa, L., et al. (1999). In sisterhood? Women’s studies and activism. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 27(3/4), 257–267. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004495 
  • Braun, V. (2011). Petting a snake? Reflections on feminist critique, media engagement and ‘making a difference.’ Feminism & Psychology, 22(4), 528-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353511427089
  • Dean, A. (2007). Teaching feminist activism: Reflections on an activism assignment in introductory women’s studies. Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 29(4), 351-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714410701454065
  • Dickinson, T. D. (2005). Strengthening women’s studies through applied activism: Theoretical, classroom, regional, and cross-border strategies for participating in change. Women’s Studies International Forum, 28(2-3), 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2005.04.002
  • Drenovsky, C.K. (1999). The advocacy project on women’s issues: A method for teaching and practicing feminist theory in an introductory women’s studies course. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 27(3/4), 12–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004473 
  • Fahs, B., & Swank, E. (2021). Sexualities in revolt: Teaching activism, manifesto writing, and anti-assimilationist politics to upper-division undergraduates. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 16(3), 375-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2021.1924909
  • Forbes, K., Garber, L., Kensinger, L., & Slagter, J. T. (1999). Punishing pedagogy: The failings of forced volunteerism. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 27(3-4), 158-168. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40004485
  • Flores, P., Gómez, N. R., Roa, A. F., & Whitson, R. (2020). Reviving feminism through social media: from the classroom to online and offline public spaces. Gender and Education, 32(6), 751–766. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2018.1513454
  • Guest, C. J. (2016). Knowing feminism: the significance of higher education to women’s narratives of ‘becoming feminist.’ Gender and Education, 28(3), 471-476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1167842
  • Hall, K. M. Q. (2016). A transnational Black feminist framework: Rooting in feminist scholarship, framing contemporary Black activism. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 15(1), 86-2015. https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.1.06
  • Hensel, L., Drake, M. A., & Young, V. A. (2017). The fiber arts in a women’s studies curriculum—a case study. Feminist Teacher, 28(1), 17–31. https://doi.org/10.5406/femteacher.28.1.0017 
  • Jauk, D. (2017). Feminist scholar-activism goes global: Experiences of “Sociologists for Women in Society” at the UN. Brock Education Journal, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.26522/brocked.v27i1.627
  • Lal, J., McGuire, K., Stewart, A. J., Zaborowska, M., & Pas, J. M. (2010). Recasting global feminisms: Toward a comparative historical approach to women’s activism and feminist scholarship. Feminist Studies, 36(1), 13-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40607998
  • Le Nobel, S., & Glaser, J. (2025). Continuing the conversation: Intergenerational student feminist activism. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, 46(2). https://atlantisjournal.ca/index.php/atlantis/en/article/view/6032
  • Messer-Davidow, E., Bystydzienski, J. M., Bloom, L. R., Rice, P. J., Licona, A., & Daly, B. O. (2004). Women’s studies and activism: An interview with Ellen Messer-Davidow. NWSA Journal, 16(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1353/nwsa.2004.0058
  • Parker, J., & Freedman, J. (1999). Women’s centers/women’s studies programs: Collaborating for feminist activism. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 27(3/4), 114–121. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004482
  • Peet, M., & Reed, B. G. (1999). Activism in an introductory women’s studies course: Connected learning through the implementation of praxis. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 27(3-4), 21-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40004474
  • Peet, M. R., & Reed, B. G. (2002). The development of political consciousness and agency: The role of activism and race/ethnicity in an introductory women’s studies course. Feminist Teacher, 14(2), 106-122. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40545879
  • Preston, L. (2008). A space of our own: MySpace and feminist activism in the classroom. The Radical Teacher, 81, 14-19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20710438
  • Price, K. (2002). The making of an activist-scholar, or my year as a congressional fellow. Feminist Teacher, 14(2), 134-145. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40545881
  • Reedy, F., & Haynes, K. (2021). Daughter-mother perspectives on feminist activism in the academy. Organization, 30(1), 181-192. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084211061237
  • Silliman, J., & Bhattacharjee, A. (1999). Relocating women’s studies and activism: A dialogue. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 27(3/4), 122–136. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004483 
  • Sojka, C. J., & Huey, R. K. (2023). Feminist fat activist pedagogy beyond the classroom. Feminist Pedagogy, 3(5). https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol3/iss5/6
  • Stake, J.E. (2007). Predictors of change in feminist activism through women’s and gender studies. Sex Roles, 57(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-007-9227-z
  • Strobel, M. (2000). The Don’t Throw It Away! Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago. NWSA Journal, 12(2), 163-169. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316743
  • Turell, S. C. (1999). Rape crisis intervention: Activism in academia. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 27(3-4), 49-58. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40004476

Other

  • Journal of International Women’s Studies, vol. 27(2), 2025 – Change-Makers: Women’s Studies Scholar-Activism across the Disciplines (10th World Conference on Women’s Studies) https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol27/iss2/1/
  • Kaplan, C. N. (2004). Carrying it on: Post-graduation impact of feminist praxis on women’s studies majors (No. 3118362) [Doctoratal dissertation, University of Virginia]. University of Virginia ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
  • Robinson, T. C. (2011). Teaching activist intelligence: Feminism, the educational experience and the Applied Women’s Studies Department at CGU [Master’s thesis, Claremont Graduate University]. Scholarship @ Claremont. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/7/