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The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law signed by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. The Act provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress when prosecutors chose to not prosecute cases. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the U.S. Department of Justice.

The history of black suffrage in the United States, or the right of African Americans to vote in elections, has had many advances and setbacks. Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, some Black people in the United States had the right to vote, but this right was often abridged or taken away. After 1870, Black people were theoretically equal before the law, but in the period between the end of Reconstruction era and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 this was frequently infringed in practice.

In the United States, the rights of transgender people vary considerably by jurisdiction. By the end of 2021, at least 130 bills had been introduced in 33 states to restrict the rights of transgender people.[1] In 2022, over 230 anti-transgender bills were introduced in state legislatures in a coordinated national campaign to target transgender rights.[2] Many of these bills became law.

A bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that denies access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity. Bathroom bills affect access to sex-segregated public facilities for an individual based on a determination of their sex as defined in some specific way, such as their sex as assigned at birth, their sex as listed on their birth certificate, or the sex that corresponds to their gender identity.[1] A bathroom bill can either be inclusive or exclusive of transgender individuals, depending on the aforementioned definition of their sex. Unisex public toilets are one option to avoid this controversy.

Research gateway for Women's Studies

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

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.

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.

Spring 2014, Carrie Baker

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.