[1] In addition to research, the center is home to archives of feminist theory and women's history as well as Brown's undergraduate Gender and Sexuality Studies concentration.

[8] The journal provides a critical forum where the problematic of differences is explored in texts ranging from the literary and the visual to the political and social.

Housed in the John Hay Library, the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive focus on 19th and 20th-century Brown and Rhode Island women and their organizations.

In addition to correspondence, diaries, photographs, newspapers, yearbooks, and memorabilia, it also includes a collection of oral history tapes and videos.

The Feminist Theory Archive, established in 2003 with the papers of the late Naomi Schor, preserves the legacies of prominent scholars of women, gender and sexuality.

[9] Its mission is to collect, arrange, describe, preserve, and make accessible the work of leading feminist theorists beginning in the 1960s.

The archive holds the papers of a number of noted academics, including Silvia Federici, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Jacqueline Bhabha, Lauren Berlant, and Seyla Benhabib.

The Council, which meets three times a year on the Brown campus, is composed of committees that recommend initiatives for action by the Associates.