Culture & Identity

Sexism still permeates culture through the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes as well as misogynistic, negative and violent imagery in mass media. Perceptions of identity and gender roles are influenced, reflected and reinforced through myths, narratives and stories. Cultural cues about appropriate gender roles can have a negative and harmful impact by, for example, defining strength and rationalism as ”masculine” and submissiveness and emotionalism as ”feminine.” NCRW and its members are promoting awareness through research and critical analysis that uncover the tensions and assumptions involved in identity and gender roles.

Friends in deed

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 4:48pm

By Dalia Itzik

The Jerusalem Post

17/01/2010 19:35

One cannot put a price tag on the dedication of an army of 300,000 volunteers in the Diaspora.

 

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The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute develops fresh ways of thinking about Jews and gender worldwide by producing and promoting scholarly research and artistic projects.

The world's only academic center of its kind, the HBI provides research resources and programs for scholars, students and the public. The Institute publishes books and a journal, convenes international conferences and local programming, and offers competitive grant and internship programs.

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The Bat Mitzvah Project:

The Bat Mitzvah Project (BMP) aims to revolutionize the experience of becoming a bat mitzvah.  HBI, in collaborative partnership with Moving Traditions, is designing a program to make the bat mitzvah a more meaningful experience, while fostering self-confidence and a strong Jewish identity.

The HBI Annual Calendar Project: 

In 1999, HBI began producing a 12-month, Hebrew/English calendar featuring Jewish women around the world. Our overarching goal is to bring a fresh look at Jewish women’s experiences, achievements, and work into the daily lives of calendar users. To date, calendar themes have focused on actvist artists, athletes, scientists, leaders, rabbis, writers, and most recently, craft artisans.

Esther’s Legacy: Celebrating Purim Around the World

Esther’s Legacy is a collection of 140 men’s and women’s personal thoughts, observations, memories, and descriptions on the holiday of Purim. Written by people from nearly 100 Jewish communities, the collection strives to represent the diversity of worldwide Jewry while exploring the commonalities of celebrating Jewish life—and Purim in particular.

Please contact the HBI for additional information about the project and the publication that led to its culmination.

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The Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law was initiated by a grant from The Sylvia Neil and Dan Fischel Philanthropic Fund. The project was launched in February 2007 as part of the celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

Families & Holocaust Project:

Launched in February 2009, the mission of the HBI Project on Families, Children and the Holocaust is to introduce a new dimension to Holocaust studies - interdisciplinary research on the histories and representations of East European Jewish families and children from 1933 to the present. In particular the project aims to explore the experience of childhood, motherhood and fatherhood in specific geographical locations and in a transnational context. The Project also encourages methodological research and artistic expressions pertaining to adult and child survivors' accounts of their prewar, wartime and postwar lives.

 

 

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"Writing between Worlds: On Being a Jewish Writer," Tova Mirvis, HBI Scholar-in-Residence, Fall 2009
 
 
“Calculus and Calculation (19??) ,” Judith Katz, HBI Scholar-in-Residence, 2008
 
 
"Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Descent: The Gender Imbalance in American Jewish Life” by HBI co-director, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Ph.D. and Daniel Parmer (2008).
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New Faculty Colloquium - The Effect of Acculturation and Racial Identity on the Body Image of African-American Women

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 3:16pm
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04/28/2010

New Faculty Colloquium - The Effect of Acculturation and Racial Identity on the Body Image of African-American Women

Dr. Germine Awad

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United States
39° 44' 20.9544" N, 104° 59' 4.9308" W
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Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)

Judith S. White is the executive director of Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), an educational non-profit that provides leadership and management training for women in higher education administration. The main offices of HERS are located on the campus of the University of Denver. Previously Dr. White was assistant vice president for campus services and adjunct professor of women’s studies at Duke University. She has taught and held administrative positions at Dartmouth College, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Charlotte, and Queens College. Dr. White was a Senior Fellow of the Association of American Colleges and Universities from 2003-05, serving as an advisor to AAC&U’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Global Initiatives and the Project on the Status and Education of Women and as chair of the advisory board of Campus Women Lead. Judith attended Salem College before finishing her B.A. at Princeton University. She received her M.A.

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Denver, CO
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Applied Women's Studies Program

Linda M. Perkins is Associate Professor of the Claremont Graduate University. She holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the departments of Applied Women's Studies, Educational Studies and History. Perkins is a historian of women's and African American higher education. Her primary areas of research are on the history of African American women's higher education, the education of African Americans in elite institutions and the history of talent identification programs for African Americans students. She has served as Vice President of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and has also served as a member of the Executive Council of AERA. She is currently on the editorial boards of the History of Education Quarterly and the Review of African American Education.

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Claremont, CA 91104
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34° 10' 0.8112" N, 118° 8' 10.3344" W
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