c_Ross-Prentiss Women's Academy

The Ross-Prentiss Women's Academy is the fictional women's college where approximately 85% of the film, Women's Studies is set. It is the home of the Academy Girls, the film's antagonists, who believe that change leading to equality for women can only occur through violent means.

The Academy Girls, rather than devoted students, are actually a cult of psychotic feminists bent on enslaving and/or murdering men. These cult-feminists indoctrinate college age girls under their dogma then send them out into the world to take high powered jobs from men, run for public office, and take away men’s social power. They’re also ordered to seduce then murder men with high intelligence or stamina in order to create a “pure Goddess race.” They believe that eliminating men from the world is the only way to achieve liberation for women.

Women’s Studies is a horror film that follows Mary, a pregnant grad student, and her friends, the Interlopers, as they are held captive at the Ross-Prentiss Women's Academy. The Interlopers also hold strong feminist principles, but they believe that progress occurs through living the change you wish to see and being a positive example. In other words, through non-violent means.

Women's Studies is a case study in what happens when you pit intelligent peaceful feminists against the stereotype of a violent, hate-filled feminist cult. If you have two people with the same dreams, what turns one of them into a terrorist?

Mary is forced to choose between joining the Ross-Prentiss sect or risking death by trying to escape from the academy.