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.

Women's Studies Program

Contact

501 East High Street
Oxford, OH 45056
Ph. (513) 529-5333
Fx. (513) 529-1890
http://www.cas.muohio.edu/wms/about.html
detlofmm@muohio.edu
fuehrea@muohio.edu

The Women's Studies Program at Miami University is a dynamic, interdisciplinary program that investigates how our lives are affected by gender, race, class, age, sexuality, religion, (dis)ability, gender identity, and nationality. Women's Studies emphasizes the importance of understanding gender as a part of wider social and political structures of power, knowledge, experience, culture, embodiedness, intimacies, and labor. Women's Studies courses are organized around contemporary feminist research and theory, and focus intersectionally on women, gender, and sexuality as subjects of inquiry. Our coursework also focuses on how theory and practice come together. Students may choose from courses spanning departments, disciplines, divisions and ideologies. The Women's Studies program provides a context in which women's work and women's issues are explored in-depth, celebrating women's creativity, women's lives, and women's work.

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Dr. Madelyn Detloff, Director
Ph. (513) 529-4616
E-mail: detlofmm@muohio.edu

Ann Fuehrer, Assistant Director & Chief Program Advisor
Ph. (513) 529-6827
Email: fuehrea@muohio.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Access & Disparities, Advancing Women's Leadership, Arts & Activism, Awareness & Education, Barriers & Opportunities, Culture & Identity, Family & Society, Religion & Spirituality, Sexuality & Gender, Women in History, Women's Movements, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Women's Networks

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Women's Center

The Miami University Women's Center serves as a place of support, education and advocacy for women. The center advocates for equitable treatment and promotes the critical analysis of gender issues in the educational system. Located on the 2nd floor of MacMillan Hall, the Women's Center offers a variety of resources and programs to enhance the educational climate and community for women faculty, staff and students. Although the Women's Studies Program and Women's Center are distinct entities, they are highly cooperative.
 

 

Reports & Resources

Detloff, Madelyn. The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Detloff, Madelyn. “Mrs. Dalloway and the Ideology of Death: A Cultural Studies Approach.” Approaches to Teaching Mrs. Dalloway. Ed. Eileen Barrett and Ruth Saxton. New York: Modern Language Association (2009).

Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism. Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Diana Royer and Madelyn Detloff. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2008.

Cressy, E.C., Harrick, E.A., & Fuehrer, A. (2002) The narrative study of feminist psychologist identities. Feminism & Psychology, 12 (2), 221-246.

 

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Student Awards

The WMS Program sponsors an essay contest each year in the late spring to recognize outstanding student work in the area of Women's Studies. Prizes are awarded to the best essay written by a graduating senior in the Program and for the best paper by any other graduate.

Fellowships

The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) has provided a grant to help fund three fellowships for Miami University faculty.

Nellie Craig Women's Studies Research Scholar

This award is named for Miami University 1905 graduate Nellie Craig, the first African-American student at the university. The scholar who holds this position will conduct new research in African-American women's history and advise the Women's Studies Program regarding research directions and new programming.

Miami Tribe Women's Studies Coordinator

The scholar who holds this award will conduct new research on American Indian women and women in the Miami tribe. The Miami Tribe Women's Studies Coordinator will work closely with the staff of the Myaamia Project, based in Oxford, Ohio, and also travel to Miami tribal locations in Indiana and Oklahoma to meet with women tribal leaders.

Las Mujeres  Director Award 
 
This individual will provide leadership on Chicana issues and research initiatives and work in conjunction with the Miami Latin American Studies Program and the Miami University Latino Community Coordinator to provide crucial diversity leadership within the Women's Studies Program.
 
Contact Mary Frederickson (frederme@muohio.edu) for more information.

 

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Shirley Chisholm Center for Research on Women

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2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Ph. (718) 951-5640
Fx. (718) 951-4670
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/WomensStudies/1532.htm
patriciaant@aol.com
pata@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Women and gender (the social and historical meanings of the distinction between men and women) are fundamental categories of social, cultural, and scientific inquiry integral to the study of the diversity of human experience. Consequently, the overarching goal of the Center is to conduct research to develop original scholarship on gender and new questions promoting the growth of feminist inquiry and practice. Our aim is to investigate women in society and culture in historical and contemporary contexts at the intersection of class, race, ethnicity, and nationality and to establish connections between local issues and the global context.

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Patricia Antoniello, Director
Ph. (718) 951-5640
E-mail: pata@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Access & Disparities, Awareness & Education, Culture & Identity, Globalization, Women in History, Women's Movements, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Women's Networks

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Takkar, P., P. Kothari, A. Kaysin and P. Antoniello. "Community-Based Primary Health Care - The Jamkhed Model: Overcoming Domestic Violence and Traditional Gender Roles." American Public Health Association. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006.

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Women's Studies Student Scholarship

The Scholarship is an annual tuition award of $5000 ($2500 over the Fall and Spring semesters each), paid out over the student’s senior year at Brooklyn College.

 


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Women's Studies Program

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210 East Duke Building
Durham , NC 27708
Ph. (919) 684-5683
Fx. (919) 684-4652
http://womenstudies.duke.edu
cfhharri@duke.edu


The Program in Women's Studies at Duke University is dedicated to exploring gender identities, relations, practices, theories and institutions, In the field's first decades, feminist scholarship reoriented traditional disciplines toward the study of women and gender and developed new methodologies and critical vocabularies that have made interdisciplinarity a key feature of Women's Studies as an autonomous field. Today, scholars continue to explore the meaning and impact of identity as a primary though by no means transhistorical or universal way of organizing social life by pursuing an intersectional analysis of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality. In the classroom, as in our research, our goal is to transform the university's organization of knowledge by reaching across the epistemological and methodological divisions of historical, political, philosophical, economic, representational, technological and scientific analysis.

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Principal Staff

Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and DUS
Ph.(919) 684-4063
E-mail: rkhanna@duke.edu

Melanie J. Mitchell, Program Coordinator
Ph. (919) 684-3655
E-mail: melanie.mitchell@duke.edu

Tina M. Campt, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph. (919) 684-4267
E-mail: tcampt@duke.edu

Gwendolyn Rogers, Staff Assistant
Ph. (919) 684-4052
E-mail Address: grogers@duke.edu

Lillian P. Spiller, Administrative Coordinator
Ph. (919) 684-3770
E-mail: llps@duke.edu

Marialana L Weitzel, Staff Assistant
Ph. (919) 684-5683
E-mail: m.weitzel@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Access & Disparities, Awareness & Education, Barriers & Opportunities, Culture & Identity, Higher Education, Sexuality & Gender, Women in History, Women's Movements, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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The Pipeline Project

Women are under-represented in the political process, both at the state and federal level. In the US, there are 17 women senators and in the North Carolina senate only 6 women. Justtwenty-five per cent of legislators in North Carolina are women (a combination of house and senate).

To help address this issue, on January 15 and 16, Duke students and others, from the Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem areas, participated in a two-day workshop designed to help prepare women to run for office at the local, state or federal level. Martha Reeves, Visiting Professor in Sociology and Women’s Studies and Barbara Ferris, Executive Director of the International Women’s Democracy Center in Washington, DC, organized and conducted the Pipeline Project workshop.
 
The program covered all of the steps needed to prepare and run a successful campaign. Among the many topics, participants learned the steps required to get on the ballot; how to manage a team of volunteers and campaign staff; how to raise money and develop a budget; how to craft one’s message; and how to effectively deal with the media. A lunch-time seminar featuring Ellie Kinnaird, state senator from North Carolina, and Randee Haven-O’Donnell, alderperson from Carrboro, NC provided the attendees with first-hand knowledge of both the challenges and rewards of public service.

 

Reports & Resources

R. Khanna. Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present. November, November, 2007.

R. Khanna. "Frames, Contexts, Community, Justice." Diacritics 33:2, November 2005: 11-41, Summer 2003.
 
R. Khanna. "Signatures of the Impossible." Duke Journal of Law and Gender Policy  (2004).

Women's Studies Newsletter

The Women's Studies Program publishes a newsletter twice a year featuring activities in the Program and scholarship by Faculty and Students.

 

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Awards & Grants

Women's Studies administers a variety of awards and grants of up to $1500 each to currently enrolled Duke students in recognition of outstanding scholarship and research. The awards have been generously endowed through the Council on Women's Studies, alumnae/i, and friends.

Fellowships

The Graduate School awards two full fellowships to Women's Studies each year. Each fellowship carries a nine-month $19,840 stipend (tuition and fees to be paid by the Graduate School).

Employment Opportunities

Women's Studies offers a number of Graduate Instructor positions, Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships each year. Students may also find additional opportunities for research and jobs on DukeList.

 


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The Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality

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835 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Ph. (415) 817-4525

http://crgs.sfsu.edu/
crgs@sfsu.edu


The Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality (CRGS) is an interdisciplinary community of San Francisco State University faculty, students, and staff dedicated to studying innovative social science research questions, methods, and theories, and training new investigators. Frequently working in collaboration with community organizations, the CRGS is committed to producing new and useful knowledge about sexuality and gender. Our goal is to promote social justice and well-being by empirically challenging how inequalities undermine healthy sexuality.

CRGS is proud to be a part of the National Centers on Sexuality (NCS) at San Francisco State University. At the NCS, interdisciplinary sexuality science, advocacy, capacity building and training come together through the collaboration of three organizations:

CRGS, producing new knowledge to advance social justice and social change;

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CRGS Faculty:

Dr. Colleen Hoff, Director
E-mail: choff@sfsu.edu

Dr. Héctor Carrillo, Research Faculty
E-mail: hector@sfsu.edu

Dr. Jessica Fields, Research Faculty
E-mail: jfields@sfsu.edu

Dr. David Frost, Research Faculty
Email: frost@sfsu.edu

Dr. Gil Herdt, Research Faculty
E-mail: gherdt@sfsu.edu

Dr. Rita Melendez, Research Faculty
E-mail: rmelende@sfsu.edu

Dr. Lynn Sorsoli, Research Faculty
E-mail: lsorsoli@msn.com

Dr. Deborah Tolman, Founder

Research Teams:


Adult Male Circumcision:

Héctor Carrillo, Principal Investigator
E-mail: hector@sfsu.edu

Michael Diaz, Research Assistant
E-mail: michaeldiaz06@gmail.com

Walter Gomez, Research Associate
E-mail: wgomez@sfsu.edu

Rachel Howard, Research Assistant
E-mail: rachelhoward1@gmail.com


Female Adolescent Risk Project (FARP):

Lynn Sorsoli, Principal Investigator
E-mail: lsorsoli@sfsu.edu

Gabriela Candelaria, Research Asst.
E-mail: gabyc@sfsu.edu

Allegra Hirschman, Project Coordinator
E-mail: allegra.hirschman@gmail.com


The Gay Couples Study Team:

Colleen Hoff, Principal Investigator
E-mail: choff@sfsu.edu

Brianne Amato, Research Assistant
E-mail: bamato@sfsu.edu

Sean Beougher, Project Director
E-mail: seancb@sfsu.edu

Deepalika Chakravarty, Statistician
E-mail: deepalika.chakravarty@ucsf.edu

Anthony Freeman, former RA
E-mail: afreeman@sfsu.edu

Carla Garcia, Research Associate
E-mail: ccgarcia@sfsu.edu

Walter Gomez, Research Associate
E-mail: wgomez@sfsu.edu


Trayectos Research Team:

Héctor Carrillo, Principal Investigator
E-mail: hector@sfsu.edu

Julia Sinclair-Palm, Research Assistant
E-mail: palmjulia@gmail.com


Honoring Leadership and Diversity - Women of Color and the CRGS (HOLD):

Sydney Seifert, Research Assistant
E-mail: sydney.seifert@gmail.com

Desiree Valdez, Research Assistant
E-mail: dc.valdez@gmail.com


Research on Inequality, Sexuality and Education (RISE):

Jessica Fields, Principal Investigator
E-mail: jfields@sfsu.edu

Lanice Avery, Research Assistant
E-mail: princessnicie@yahoo.com

Kendra Bloom, Research Assistant
E-mail: kbloom8@gmail.com

Allyse Grey, Research Assistant
E-mail: msgray86@yahoo.com

Sheerein Hosseini, Research Assistant
E-mail: activistforhumanity@yahoo.com

Christina Monroe, Research Assistant
E-mail: cmonroe@sfsu.edu


Women, Sexuality and Religion:

Rita Melendez, Principal Investigator
E-mail: rmelende@sfsu.edu

Allison Kirschbaum, Research Assistant
E-mail: akirschbaum@gmail.com

Alberto Rodriguez, Research Assistant
E-mail: alberto_rf@hotmail.com


Administrative Staff:

Liz McClelland, NCS Operations Manager
E-mail: lizm@sfsu.edu

Brianne Amato, CRGS Administrative Assistant
E-mail: crgs@sfsu.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Body Image & Wellness, Awareness & Education, Communications, Media & Gender, Culture & Identity, Disparities, Family & Society, Higher Education, Religion & Spirituality, Sexuality & Gender, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Communications, Culture & Society, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Health, Reproductive Rights & Sexuality

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Research

CRGS at work
 
With the Gay Couples Study group joining CRGS in 2008, the research teams in CRGS became even stronger! The Gay Couples Study is now in the final stages of longitudinal data collection for both its qualitative and quantitative arms. Data collection for the qualitative interviews should finish by July, 2009 and the quantitative surveys should finish by February, 2010. Currently, the Gay Couples Study Team is working on several manuscripts for publication in profession journals, and will be presenting findings at the upcoming National HIV Prevention Conference in August.

The Girls' Risk Project, with PI Dr. Lynn Sorsoli at the helm, was recently completed. This study examined girls' decisions to engage in noncoital sexual behaviors, and the ways girls' narratives of those experiences differ by racial/ethnic group. It also explored the roles played by girls' health beliefs, gender beliefs, and behavioral contexts. Dr. Sorsoli and Project Coordinator Allegra Hirschman are now hard at work on an innovative new project that will examine the risks IRB members perceive regarding adolescent participation in sexuality studies, how adolescents perceive risk and experience study participation in sexuality studies and how the perceived risk and actual experiences of adolescents compare to the risks perceived by IRB members.

While wrapping up on his Trayectos Study, Dr. Héctor Carrillo began work on a new project focused on adult male circumcision. In the Circumcision Study, Dr. Carrillo will study the cultural factors of adult circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy for Mexican immigrants. After facing some initial recruitment challenges, the study is now just 5 participants away from reaching the desired sample size.

Dr. Jessica Fields and her research team recently capped off their Jailed Women and HIV Education project, a feminist analysis of incarcerated women's experiences of HIV education and risk, with culminating experience events at both the CRGS and the San Francisco County Jail. The Jailed Women and HIV Education study brings new attention, funding, and employment opportunities to the concerns of women of color locked up in San Francisco and other county jails. In addition, Dr. Fields continues to work alongside Drs. Rita Melendez and Amy Sueyoshi on H.O.L.D. (Honoring Leadership and Diversity) which involves interviews with administrators, faculty, and graduate students to investigate the barriers for women of color’s involvement at sexuality centers such as CRGS and within academia more broadly.

Dr. Rita Melendez is examining the relations between gender roles, religion, and HIV prevention among Latina and African-American women, and has recently begun work on the interview portion of her study.
 

Reports & Resources

Choi, K., Hoff, C., Gregorich, S., Grinstead, O., Gomez, C., Hussey, W. (2008), The Efficacy of Female Condom Skills Training in HIV Risk Reduction among Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial, American Journal of Public Health. 98(10). 1803-1813.


Hoff, C., Pals, S., Purcell, D., Parsons, J, Halkitis, P, Remien, R., Gomez, C. (2006). Is sexual risk behavior with main partners impacted differentially than risk with non-main partner in an HIV prevention trial targeting HIV-positive gay and bisexual men? AIDS and Behavior, 10(3).

Fisher, H., Purcell, D., Hoff, C., Parsons, J., O’Leary, A. (2006) Recruitment source and behavioral risk patterns of HIV-positive men who have sex with men. AIDS and Behavior, 10 (4).

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Women's Research & Resource Center

Beverly Guy Sheftall, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College.  She is also adjunct professor at Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies where she teaches graduate courses. At the age of sixteen, she entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary education.  After graduation with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English.  In 1968, she entered Atlanta to pursue a master's degree in English; her thesis was entitled, "Faulkner's Treatment of Women in His Major Novels."  A year later she began her first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama.

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WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action

Submitted by ncrw on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 1:34pm

By Karen O’Connor*

One need only look to the Declaration of Sentiments adopted by the women in attendance at the Seneca Falls Convention in August 1848 to begin to appreciate how far women in the United States still are from reaching equality in a host of arenas, many of which are dependent on political or legal equality. Although women were granted the franchise in 1920 after decades of struggle, it is only in the past few decades that women have become a political force – at least at the ballot box. Women not only vote more than men, but unmarried women and women of color are much more likely to vote for Democratic candidates. In fact, women were key voters in the successful elections of Presidents Clinton and Obama.


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WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Achieving Political Equality by Living It

Submitted by ncrw on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 12:59pm

By Tonni Brodber*

Linda Basch: From your perspective, what is the unfinished work of women’s political equality?

Tonni Brodber: In the English-speaking Caribbean women’s participation in political leadership ranges from a high of 13% in Jamaica to a low of 0% in Belize, with many countries like St. Kitts and Nevis and St Lucia hovering at 6.7% and at 5.6% respectively. In the face of such paltry numbers, it almost pains me to say that it is my belief that the unfuinished work of women’s political equality is the lack of quality and diversity.


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WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Steps to Political Equality from Gloria Thomas

Submitted by Amazzeo on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 12:29pm

By Gloria Thomas*

Women will not have achieved political equality until critical societal changes have taken place. First, women’s successes in being elected and appointed to political positions, corporate and non-profit executive leadership roles, as well as significant public and private boards must no longer be an anomaly to demonstrate equality has been accomplished. When we reach this point, there will no longer be a need for organizations like The White House Project to inspire women to run for public office. Nor will there be a need for other leadership programs designed to provide women with the skills and networks necessary to pursue various executive level positions and to provide the staying power to succeed once they are in these roles.


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