Education & Education Reform

Women and girls have made substantial progress in educational attainment. Today in the US women receive more than half of all college degrees – and have almost achieved parity with men in advanced degrees in law, medicine and other disciplines. But several gaps persist, and more importantly, disparities remain among diverse women according to race, income, immigrant status and other socio-economic factors. Improving access to quality education for all students including adolescent girls and mothers needs to become a national and global priority. Explore the resources listed below, including Related Categories links, or use the Keyword Search for more information.

Center for Feminist Research

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3501 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4352
Ph. 213-740-1739
Fx. 213-740-6168
https://dornsife.usc.edu/cfr/
cfr@usc.edu


For 20 years, CFR has worked together with the Gender Studies Program to create research opportunities for the study of women, gender, and feminism. Our seminars, workshops, conferences, and informal gatherings have brought together scholars, students, and members of the greater Los Angeles community who share interests and concerns about the operations of gender in our neighborhoods, our society, and our world.
 
CFR offers New Directions fellowships for USC faculty and graduate students as well as fellowships for students in Communications and Cinema. The Affiliated Scholars program offers access to USC facilities to feminist scholars from other academic institutions.
 
A Steering Committee composed of faculty members from across the University governs CFR. The support of alumni and friends allows the Center to continue its mission as one of the nation's oldest university research centers dedicated to feminism.

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Alice Echols, Director, Professor of English & Gender Studies
Ph. 213-821-1163
E-mail: echols@usc.edu

Rebecca Das, Program Specialist & Assistant Director
Ph. 213-740-1739
E-mail: rebeccad@usc.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Awareness & Education, Higher Education, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Education & Education Reform

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Gender in Televised Sports: News and Highlights Shows, 1989 - 2009

Girls' and women's participation rates in organized sports have soared in recent decades, but according to the CFR Gender in Televised Sportsreport, media coverage of women's sports continues to lag.  Every five years since 1989, USC professor of sociology and gender studies Michael Messner and his colleagues examine the quality and quantify of coverage of men's and women's sports on three network affiliate news shows, and on ESPN's SportsCenter.  The 2010 study revealed that sports news and highlights shows continue largely to ignore or trivialize women's sports, as well as many men's sports, in effect supporting a continued cultural valuation of the central men's sports of basketball, football, and baseball.

2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar
Center for Feminist Research

The Center For Feminist Research is pleased to announce that the 2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar, directed by Professor Karen Tongson, will focus on "Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of Popular Music."  In addition to Tongson, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, next year's seminar will include the following group of faculty and graduate students:

1. Edwin Hill, Assistant Professor of French, Italian, Comparative Literature and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project "La Rage: Losing it in the French Peripheries," explores anti-colonial discourses of rage in French hip-hop culture and literature, in order to offer a timely intervention into debates about the 2005 and 2007 riots in the French banlieus, or urban peripheries, and France's "ultra-peripheries"--its colonial territories in the West Indies.

2. Kara Keeling, Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), and African American Studies in American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "'Electric Feel': Transduction, Errantry and the Refrain" ascertains what logics inherited from particular popular musics might offer ongoing efforts to renegotiate bonds, institutions and political possibilities shaped by the violences characteristic of capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberal multiculturalism and contemporary geopolitics.

3. Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication (Annenberg) and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project, titled "The World Begins Here: Love and Death and Music in Tijuana" tracks the transnational flows of culture from Tijuana's founding as a family-owned cattle ranch in the aftermath of the 19th century creation of a US-Mexico border, to its current state as a chaotic urban sprawl of well over two million people. In these histories, Kun hears what he calls the 'aural border': a bi-national territory of sonic performance and listening; of melodic convergence and dissonant clashing. 

4. Shana Redmond, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "Timing is Everything: The Feminine Antiphonies in 'We are the World'" revisits this anthem of global "relief"--particularly its redeployment in the wake of the 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti--in order to expose the feminized musical tropes that organize conditions of aid and aid occupation, which developed in post-disaster sites like Ethiopia in 1985, and Haiti in 2010. 

5. Mina Yang, Assistant Professor of Music (Thornton). Her project, "Dancing into Visibility: Asian-American B-Boys and the Hip-Hop Trans-Nation," situates her extensive research on b-boying in Asia and Asian America within the context of racial discourses in the United States and hip-hop history, and against the backdrop of emergent transpacific economies and cultural geographies.

6. Micha Cardenas, Ph.D. student in Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (SCA); artist and theorist. Her project, titled "Femme Disturbance," combines scholarship, poetry and performance components to explore how musicality and figures like Janelle Monae and Ke$ha (among others) help foster antirationalist theories of genderqueer solidarity, politics and action. 

The CFR's "New Directions in Feminist Research" is organized annually around a particular theme.  The seminar offers participants an opportunity to work collectively on thematically linked projects, and also creates public events--invited speakers, panels, conferences--that engage the broader feminist community of faculty and students at USC.  Stay tuned for announcements for such events in 2012-13.

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The Center for Feminist Research Newsletter

Our Spring 2012 newsletter is now available online! Please follow the link below and click on Spring 2012. Past issues available here as well.

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Opportunities, Grants & Fellowships

Graduate Fellowships:

Diana Meehan Fellowship in Feminism and Communications
 
The Center for Feminist Research will award two $2000 Fellowships to two advanced graduate students working in the general area of feminism and communication. Applicants should be advanced students who are working either on a dissertation or on an original creative project.
 
Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:
·       a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified
·       a curriculum vita
·       a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)
·       two letters of recommendation
·       an unofficial transcript
 
Cagney and Lacey Fellowship
 
The Center for Feminist Research will award one $2000 fellowship to a returning woman student who is enrolled in a graduate program in the USC School of Cinema/Television. The student may be in any year of study except her final year. Please note, a returning student is one who has had a break of several years between her undergraduate training and matriculation in graduate school; she is usually of non-traditional school age.
 
Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:
    • a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified
    • a curriculum vita, which should reflect your circumstances as a woman student who has returned to academia
    • a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)
    • two letters of recommendation
    • an unofficial transcript
 
All queries and applications should be sent to: cfr@usc.edu

 


 

 


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The Feminist Majority Foundation

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1600 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22209
Ph. (703) 522-2214
Fx. (703) 522-2219
http://www.feminist.org
femmaj@feminist.org


The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) generates cutting-edge research, sponsors educational programs, and offers support and resources to further women's equality and empowerment. FMF uses research with action to reduce violence against women; to increase the health and economic well-being of women; and to eliminate discrimination of all kinds. The foundation promotes equality for women and men, and advocates for nonviolence, social justice, economic development, and the enhancement of feminist participation in public policy.

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Eleanor Smeal, President
E-mail: esmeal@feminist.org

Katherine Spillar, Executive Vice President
Ph. (310) 556-2500 x 102
Fax: (323) 653-2689
E-mail: kspillar@feminist.org
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Beth Soderberg, Administrative Assistant
Ph. (703) 522-2214 x 116
E-mail: bsoderberg@feminist.org

Areas of Expertise:

Access & Disparities, Awareness & Education, Barriers & Opportunities, Discrimination, Reproductive Health, Women's Movements, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Economic Development & Security, Education & Education Reform, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Health, Reproductive Rights & Sexuality, Violence

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Global Issues

Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. FMF is leading a public education campaign to stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan. To date, more than 150 women's rights and human rights organizations in the U.S. and around the world have agreed to co-sponsor the campaign to demand that the human rights abuses against women and girls in Afghanistan must end. The campaign is urging the United States and United Nations to continue to refuse to grant recognition to the Taliban and to do everything in their power to restore the human rights of Afghani women.

Health and Health Care
Reproductive Rights

National Clinic Access Project. The FMF National Clinic Access Project is the largest and oldest clinic defense program in the nation. The project performs grassroots organizing and engages in public education work to increase public awareness of anti-abortion extremist violence. The project also provides direct assistance in the form of legal, security, and support services as well as direct financial aid to abortion providers not affiliated with the National Abortion Federation (NAF) or Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and works in collaboration with NAF and PPFA to reduce violence. In addition, the clinic violence program conducts the most extensive research in tracking and documenting extremists' actions and violence as well as the most comprehensive annual social science survey of anti-abortion violence in the nation.

Choices Campus Leadership Program. The FMF Choices Campus Leadership Campaign is a new, innovative research and action program with extensive grassroots organizing on campus. The program is built on a study and action model using a 10-unit manual and defining choices in its broadest sense including the reproductive choices, leadership choices, career choices, and fighting the backlash. Currently, the program is on 83 campuses nationwide and is expanding rapidly. The Choices campaign also is conducted through Internet organizing via the Virtual Choices web site, www.feministcampus.org.

Women's Health. FMF provides information on how to get in touch with health hotlines and resources, including information and resources on reproductive health and options. The FMF Campaign for Mifepristone and Women's Health Research is the largest public education campaign for the use of anti-progestins. It is a sustained public education campaign directed at expanding research on the medication's many promising indications. The campaign has the sole responsibility of providing mifepristone to U.S. physicians for compassionate use treatment of several serious diseases under an agreement with the Population Council, which has U.S. distribution rights, its licensee, Danco Group, and the French pharmaceutical, which has world distribution rights.


Women and Policing

National Center for Women & Policing. A division of FMF, the National Center for Women & Policing is a national resource for women in policing, law enforcement agencies, community leaders, and public officials seeking to increase the number of women law enforcement officers and to improve law enforcement response to family violence. The National Center conducts research and provides technical assistance and training to law enforcement agencies on issues related to women in policing, family violence, and sexual assault, and promotes strategies for increasing women's representation in federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

Leadership and Leadership Development

Feminist Majority Foundation OnLine. FMF OnLine promotes social, political, and economic equality for women by featuring daily feminist news, feminist research resources, Take Action items, domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, a feminist career center, information on women and girls in sports, and more.

Campus Projects. FMF started "Feminization of Power" campus campaigns and campus units to encourage and help women to obtain positions in student government. Other campus projects include campaigns for choice and projects supporting affirmative action.

Women in Leadership. FMF is a strong supporter of furthering women's power and leadership skills. It has followed national and international political events and elections, and advocates for women's continued leadership advancement. Additionally, FMF has staged and hosted many events centered around the feminization of power, feminist leadership, and equality.

 

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Creativity Workshop in New York City

Date: 3/12/2010 Time: 10:00 AM Event Type: Conference

Place: Meta Center in the Chelsea district, 214 West 29th St.

 

 

Exquisite Journey : Fierce Beauty

Date: 3/12/2010 ~ 3/13/2010 Time: 7:30 pm Event Type: Concert

Place:  Faith Lutheran Church, Phoenix, AZ

Contact: Terry Gunn

Phone: (602) 487-1940

E-Mail: manager@azwit.com

URL: http://www.azwit.com

 

WO-MEN WITH A VISION: Building bridges Of Unity

Date: 3/26/2010 Time: 7.00PM Event Type: Concert

Place: The Guitar Merchant, Woodland Hills, CA

Contact: Leigh Swansborough

Phone: (818) 299-4527

E-Mail: powpeople@yahoo.com

 

International Family Justice Center Conference

Date: 4/27/2010 ~ 4/29/2010 Time: 8:00am-5:00pm Event Type: Conference

Contact: Melissa Mack

Phone: (888) 511-3522

E-Mail: melissa@nfjca.org

URL: http://www.familyjusticecenter.org/conference/

 

 

Contact: Ceci Glusman

Phone: 1 (831) 915-5209

E-Mail: admin@creativityworkshops.com

URL: http://www.creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html

  

Reports & Resources

FMF. 2008. 2008 Clinic Violence Survey Report. Conducted by Feminist Majority Foundation, Eleanor Smeal, Katherine Spillar, and Margie Moore. 

http://www.feminist.org/research/cvsurveys/clinic_survey2008.pdf

FMF. 2007. Handbook For Achieving Gender Equity Through Education. Written by Feminist Majority Foundation.

http://www.feminist.org/education/handbook.asp

 

 

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Barnard Center for Research on Women

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3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Ph. 212/854-2067
Fx. 212/854-8294
http://www.barnard.edu/bcrw
bcrw@barnard.edu


Since its founding in 1971, the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) has been at the very forefront of feminist action and scholarship. BCRW promotes women’s and social justice issues in the local spheres of the Barnard College community and academic and activist networks in New York City, as well as having a voice in national and transnational feminist organizing and research. We are a well-recognized nexus of feminist thought, activism, and collaboration for scholars and activists alike.
 
BCRW’s mission, “to assure that women can live and work in dignity, autonomy, and equality,” is pursued through programming and events, production and distribution of print- and web-based publications, and collaboration with local and national activist and academic networks.

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Janet Jakobsen, Ph.D., Director
E-mail: jjakobsen@barnard.edu

Catherine Sameh, Ph.D., Associate Director
E-mail: csameh@barnard.edu

Anne Jonas, Program Manager
E-mail: ajonas@barnard.edu

Pam Phillips, Administrative Assistant
E-mail: pphillips@barnard.edu

Hope Dector, New Media Management
E-mail: hdector@barnard.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Barriers & Opportunities, Immigration & Migration, Diversity & Inclusion, Higher Education, Women's Movements, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Work:life Balance, Economic Development & Security, Education & Education Reform, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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S&FOnline

http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publication-sections/sf-online/

The Scholar & Feminist Online, a triannual, multimedia, online-only journal of feminist theories and women's movements, provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women's most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks. The journal builds on these programs by publishing related scholarship and other applicable resources. A forum for scholars, activists, and artists whose work articulates the ever-evolving role of feminism in struggles for social justice, S&F Online brings you the latest in cutting-edge theory and practice.

New Feminist Solutions

http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publication-sections/nfs/

Marking the newest direction in BCRW's more than thirty-five-year-old tradition of print publication, New Feminist Solutions is a series of reports geared toward informing and inspiring activists, policy-makers and others. Each report was written in collaboration with organizations and individuals who, like BCRW, have made a concerted effort to link feminist struggles to those of racial, economic, social and global justice. The reports are based on conversations and ideas emerging from conferences held at Barnard College, and are published in conjunction with websites featuring additional information from these events. Copies of the reports are free. They can be downloaded from the New Feminist Solutions website. Print copies can be requested by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu.

BCRW Newsletter

http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/bcrw-newsletter/

Published biannually, the BCRW newsletter provides event information and feature articles that communicate some of the broader issues engaged by the events, thus providing readers with a new way of understanding the work of the Center as a whole.

Guide to NYC Women's and Social Justice Organizations

http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/guide-to-nyc-womens-social-justice-organizations/

This rich guide puts you in touch with the artists, activists and organizations whose work is most crucial to you. You'll find valuable information from nearly five hundred citywide organizations that work for sexual, racial, economic and social justice. The directory reflects our longtime commitment to building far-reaching, and sometimes unexpected coalitions.

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Opportunities, Grants & Fellowships

Student Initiated Events Fund

The Student Initiated Events Fund provides the opportunity for any student involved in an activist group at Barnard or Columbia to receive funding from the Women's Center to bring a local activist or scholar to a student-oriented program to discuss issues of gender, feminism, or women's lives. Alternately, a student may suggest a topic for a larger Women's Center program.

To apply, please send the following information to bcrw@barnard.edu: Name of student organization; student contact information; description of the event in as much detail as possible.

For further information, please email the address above or stop by the Center.


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Mary Ellen S. Capek is a Principal in Capek & Associates, a philanthropic and nonprofit research and consulting group based in Corrales, New Mexico, and a Visiting Scholar at the Anderson Schools of Management at the University of New Mexico.

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Organizational Success Through Deep Diversity & Gender Equality (by Mary Ellen Capek, Former Executive Director)

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THE GIRLS REPORT: What We Know & Need to Know About Growing Up Female

"Seven years ago the National Council for Research on Women and its member centers issued major reports on the status of girls in society, in schools, and in youth organizations in the United States. Since then, university researchers and popular writers have focussed attention on girls. The Girls Report is a fresh and timely look at every aspect of life for girls as we look toward the new millenium.

"If the reports in the early 1990s struck a chord of concern and a call to action, the tone of this report is optimism and activism. As we say at Girls Incorporated, girls are strong, smart and bold unless society puts barriers in their way. Lynn Phillips and the National Council staff have captured the strength, the energy, and the possibilities of girls on their way to becoming young women, while calling on the rest of us to be vigilant in supporting girls' high hopes and expectations for their own achievement."

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The Girls Report surveys current studies on girls, mapping theoretical debates, countering popular myths with recent research findings, and highlighting successful programs serving diverse populations. Chapters on education, health, self-esteem, violence, sexuality, and economic realities conclude with clear recommendations for action. A comprehensive bibliography offers resources to educators, researchers, policymakers, and all concerned with increasing opportunities for girls.

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