Introduction: Transform yourself: an invitation to explore your interest in women's and gender studies -- Section One: You've discovered women's and gender studies and want to know more: great! now what? -- 1 The birth of women's and gender studies and who we are now: your inheritance as a student of women's and gender studies -- 2 Claiming your education -- Section Two: You've committed to learning in women's and gender studies: great! now what? -- 3 How YOU can talk about women's and gender studies anytime, anywhere, and to anyone -- 4 Discovering and claiming your internal strengths and external skills -- Section Three: You're graduating: great! now what? -- 5 Women's and gender studies graduates as change agents: six profiles -- 6 Transform your world: preparing to graduate and living your feminist life.