Social Movements & the Law

Stand up for equal rights & fair treatment for lesbian, gay, bi, trans & intersex people everywhere.

The U.S. Department of State currently allows people to select a binary gender marker (M or F) for their U.S. passports, “ even if the gender [they] select does not match the gender on [their| supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, previous passport, or state ID. ” In addition, p

Research gateway for Women's Studies

This article critically looks at the human rights project as a damning three-dimensional metaphor that exposes multiple complexes. It argues that the grand narrative of human rights contains a subtext which depicts an epochal contest pitting savages, on the one hand, against victims and saviors, on the other. The savages-victims-saviors (SVS) construction lays bare some of the hypocrisies of the human rights project and asks human rights thinkers and advocates to become more self-reflective. The piece questions the universality and cultural neutrality of the human rights project. It calls for the construction of a truly universal human rights corpus, one that is multicultural, inclusive, and deeply political.

Index of Library of Congress Research Guides Research guides to the Library's collections, as well as subject guides prepared by Library of Congress staff, are listed below. More online guides covering other Library of Congress collections are available via the

Resources for locating information from the federal government

Exhibit at UConn Law Library

This research guide is designed to support WMS classes and those doing gender studies research at CSUDH.

Guide for doing research on topics related to women, gender, and sexuality

This guide focuses on the civil rights that various groups have fought for within the United States.

A topical introduction to Women's history. A portion of the guide will deal with Women's History Month (March in the USA.)

This guide is is just to give a snapshot celebrating just a few of the many momentous events in the history of women.

Welcome McHenry County College celebrates Women's History Month! Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week." Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as "Women’s History Week." In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month." Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, US presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month

Get sources on the American women's rights & suffrage.

This guide provides information about Tarana Burke, founder of the "me too." Movement and the September 2018 Dorothy Garrett Martin Lecturer on Ethics and Values.

A Subject Guide providing suggested resources and other information for beginning research on the topic Sex Work.

The topical research guides listed here are designed to provide students in specific Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law courses with resources and tools to begin their course-related research. The guides provide information on print and electronic library resources, legal databases, interdisciplinary databases, current awareness resources, and web resources. The reference librarians at the Ross-Blakley Law Library encourage all students engaging in research projects to meet with a librarian to discuss their research. College of Law students can request an appointment to meet with a librarian here.

Research guide on Reproductive Rights including abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, contraception, genetic screening, sterilization, and surrogacy.

Guide to print and online resources, both legal and interdisciplinary, for feminist legal theory research.

Guide to primary sources documenting feminist movements at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Rubenstein Library.

A guide to finding primary source accounts of United States history at the Valley Cottage Library.

This guide provides reliable resources pertaining to the study of gender, sexuality, LGBT+ issues and more. This guide includes access to books, journals, databases, primary source materials and reference sources in the discipline.

Dr. Chiu Chang (邱彰博士) personal collection