Arts & Activism

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.
 

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.

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.

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Adolescents and Girls

Children's Time with Fathers in Intact Families, Pamela Davis-Kearn.

Gender, Puberty, and Objectification, Karin Martin.

Arts

Tharp, Feminism, and Postmodern Dance, Sally Banes.

Art/Girl: Graffiti, Femininity, and the Career of Lady Pink, Kristina Milnor.

No Place for a Woman? Critical Narratives and Erotic Graffiti from Pompeii, Kristina Milnor.

Family Stories/Family Pictures: Mothers With Cameras, Joanne Leonard.

Representation of Women in Art History: An Overview, Patricia Simons.

Censorship

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Law, Abigail Carter.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Sociology, Susannah Dolance.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Literature, Leslie Dorfman Davis.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Feminist Theory and Philosophy, Troy Gordon.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Education, Edwina Hansbrough.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in the Mass Media, Edwina Hansbrough.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Psychology, Zaje Harrell.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Visual and Performing Arts, Libby Otto.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in Economics, Lucie Schmidt.

Studies in Gender Based Censorship: An Annotated Bibliography in American History, Chris Talbot.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Objectification Theory: Emotional Consequences of Sexual, Barbara Fredrickson.

Feminist Foundations: Practicing Feminism in the Community. A transcript of a panel at the conference, Feminists at Work: Multicultural, Feminist Influences on Practice, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Program in Feminist Practice, The University of Michigan, October 16-17, 1998.

Giving It Up: Disrupting White 'Innocence,' Re-Educating White Feminism, Gail Griffin.

International Issues - Religion

The Home and Garden are a Small Paradise for Women: Men and Women Gendering Bosnjak Nationalism in Muslim Bosnia-Hercegovina, Elissa Helms (1997).

Health and Health Care

Dual Autobiography and AIDS Witnessing, Ross Chambers.

Improving Pregnancy Outcomes during Imprisonment

Initial Exposure to Nicotine in College-age Women smokers and Never-smokers, Cynthia Pomerlau.

Mental Illness and Substance abuse: Implications for Women's Health and Health Care Access, Beth Glover Reed and Carol Mowbray.

Representations of Women's Bodies and Birthing, Carolyn Sampselle.

Women and Stress, Elizabeth Young.

Mental Health

Rumination and Depression in Women, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema.

Serious Mental Illness: Women and Parenting, Carol Mowbray.

History

Telling An Untellable Story: White "Daughter" Black "Mother" After the Cuban Revolution, Ruth Behar.

Prison Discipline, Reform and Debate: Negotiating the Female Prisoner in Nineteenth-Century England, Susanna Calkins.

The Figure of the Adulteress in the Construction of the "Cult of True Womanhood" in the19th-Century American Moral Reform Literature, Lisa Cochran.

Remembering a Forgotten Past, or Why Have We Only Heard of Ballerinas, Lynn Garafola.

The Pasha's Prostitutes: Rethinking Women, the State, and Female Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Egypt, Mario Ruiz.

International Issues - Prostitution

Making A Spectacle: The Nightly Transformations of Egyptian Nightclub Performers in a Conservative Age, Katherine Zirbel.

Contraband Women, Immigration Tricks of the Sex Trade, and State Visions of Migrant Women Workers' Rights? The 1997 Toronto Massage Parlour Raids, Cheryl Harrison.

Politics

Institutional Gender Analysis: Running for the Russian Duma, Janet Johnson.

Visions of Citizenship: Questioning the Liberal Promise of Equality, Elizabeth Wingrove.

Reproductive Rights

Informed Consent Issues in Assisted Reproduction, Nancy Reame.

Recent Trends in Abortion Legislation in Central Europe, Eleonora Zielinska.

Rural Women - International Issues

The (Wo)man in the Cashew: Gender and Development in Rural Belize, Melissa Johnson.

Sexuality

Images of Fashion: Constructing the Visible Body, Olga Vainshtein.

Sports and Fitness

Your Hair is Caked, Your Limbs are Sore: Gender, "Roughing It," and Class in Early Yosemite Tourism, Stephanie Palmer.

Violence Against Women

Assessing Sexual Harassment among Latinas, Lilia Cortina.

Domestic Violence Against Women in Serbia, Zorica Mrsevic.

Offender Interventions to End Violence Against Women, Daniel Saunders.

Women of Color

Dis/Arming the Black Champ: Joe Louis and the Legacy of Racial Uplift in the Post-Civil Rights Movement, Marlon Ross.

Violence

Seng, Julia, and Mickey Sperlich. 2008. Survivor Moms: Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering, and Healing after Sexual Abuse.

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Visiting Scholar Program

Environment

Earth Charter Summit. On September 29, 2001, WCEIA convened a day-long Earth Charter Summit, one of twelve around the country that were linked together at two points during the day, with over 150 participants and 45 speakers, to build support for the Earth Charter document, which lays out 16 principles for a just, sustainable and peaceful global society.

Global Feminism

Gender Equality Commission Training. In June 2000, Croatian women leaders took part in this three week training, designed by Anne B. Zill and executed in Washington, D.C., New York (at the United Nations in conjunction with the Beijing + 5 proceedings) and in Maine. Participants were exposed to women leaders on the national, international and state levels in government, industry, academia and civil society.

In July 2001, Bulgarian women mayors were trained for two weeks in advocacy, coalition-building, issue development, and democracy in Maine and Washington, DC.

Other

Cuba: Hearts and Minds and Past and Present. 2007. An exhibition of historical and contemporary art by Cuban, Cuban-American and American Artists about the "Island."

Annual Reports

Zill, Anne B. From Civil Society to Critical Mass: Women's Leadership , Global Security & Democracy in the 21st Century. 2002.

Consider the following list of values: consistency, inclusivity, inter-connectivity, collaboration, empathy, transparency, practicality, and long-term, big-picture considerations. How does the conduct of our government reflect these values? And what is to be done? This paper posits the proposition that the United States government is doing only fair to middling in these early days of the 21st century, that our democracy needs reinvigorating, renewed attention to these core values, as well as to the rule of law itself. A critical mass of women in positions of leadership in government and civil society could speed up this process.

Dialogue with Women
History

Women Writing the Middle East (2004). The Women Writing the Middle East project aims to restore Middle Eastern Women's voices.

Women Writing Africa (1994). The Women Writing Africa project aims to restore African women's voices. It contains a collection of written and oral narratives to be published in six regional anthologies and represents a documentation of self-conscious literary expression centered around African women's history.

History
Literature

Cross-Cultural Memoir Series.

Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series.

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present. This 10-year project completed by the Feminist Press documents the lives and experiences of Indian women through 200 texts from 11 languages. The volumes provide contemporary and historical perspective and scholarship on Indian women.

Science and Technology

Women's Guide to the Wired World. This resource helps women take full advantage of electronic communications and includes a directory of 700 on-line resources of special interest to women.

Women's Studies Development
Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Women's Studies International and Women's Studies Quarterly. These publications are designed to educate and disseminate information on women's literature, history, and the inclusion of women's perspectives in the curriculum. The Quarterly is a journal on teaching women's studies, recent scholarship, classroom aids, bibliographies, and strategies for teaching.

Cultural Diversity

Challenging Racism and Sexism: Alternatives to Genetic Explanations, edited by Ethel Tobach and Betty Rosoff. A collection examining race and gender in an effort to uncover the underlying social causes of hatred based on difference.

The Cross-Cultural Study of Women: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Margot I. Duley and Mary I. Edwards. A collection of lecture outlines, discussion questions, and annotated bibliographies on gender inequality around the world and in the college classroom.

Employment Issues

Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview, Alice Kessler-Harris. A history of women's work, including household labor, paid employment, social reform work, and the changing shape of the contemporary work force among diverse groups of women.

Family

Families in Flux, Amy Swerdlow, Renate Bridenthal, Joan Kelly, and Phyllis Vine. A study of the diversity of household forms and kinship ties throughout history as well as the different social, political, emotional, and economic functions of the family.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

The Women's Studies Quarterly. The newsletter is published twice yearly, with each issue focusing on a specific topic.

Competition: A Feminist Taboo?, edited by Valerie Miner and Helen E. Longino with a foreword by Nell Irvin Painter. Discusses competition in daily life, including in the academic and corporate worlds, in athletics, in the family, and in cross-class and cross-cultural relationships.

On Peace, War, and Gender: A Challenge to Genetic Explanations, edited by Anne E. Hunter, with associate editors Catherine M. Flamenbaum and Suzanne R. Sunday. A collection of essays, statements, and poems that examine the use and misuse of scientific research in studies of gender and aggression, especially in the areas of war and peace.

Lesbian and Gay Studies

The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century, edited and introduced by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron, with a foreword by Margaret Cruikshank. A collection of essays exploring the history of lesbian studies as well as its current impact on conceptions of identity and community, teaching, academic disciplines, university practices, and the development of feminist and lesbian theories.

History
Health and Health Care

Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. A sequel to Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, it follows the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century.

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. A pamphlet exploring two phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States.

International Development

With These Hands: Women Working on the Land, edited and with an introduction by Joan M. Jensen. A collection tracing the history of farm women in the U.S. through letters, songs, fiction, official documents, journal entries, poetry, and oral history.

Seeds 2: Supporting Women's Work Around the World, edited by Ann Leonard with an introduction by Martha Chen and afterwords by Mayra Buviniv, Misrak Elias, Rounaq Jahan, Caroline Moser, and Kathleen Staudt. Analyses of economically viable projects from women's initiatives in Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Sudan, Thailand, the U.S., and Zambia.

Law/Legal Issues

Rights and Wrongs: Women's Struggle for Legal Equality, 2nd ed., Susan Cary Nicholas, Alice M. Price, and Rachel Rubin. A guide to women and the law focusing on U.S. law and how it has affected women's constitutional rights, their position in marriage, their employment opportunities, and their control over their bodies.

Literature
History

The Feminist Press publishes considerable fiction, autobiographical and biographical sketches, short stories, poetry, novels, and many other materials about women's lives. Contact them for a complete list of publications.

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita. A collection of 200 texts by Indian women in two volumes, including poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography.

Science and Technology

The Women's Guide to the Wired World: A User-Friendly Handbook and Resource Directory, Shana Penn. This guide shows how to take full advantage of electronic communications and provides a directory of on-line resources of special interest and use to women.

Sexual Assault/Harassment

Get Smart! What You Should Know (But Won't Learn in Class) about Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination, 2nd ed., Montana Katz and Veronica Vieland. A guide for female students that contains statistics, case studies, practical solutions, and legal guidelines on discrimination, harassment, and date rape.

Women of Color
Curriculum Development

Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum: Transforming the College Classroom (with a Segment on Puerto Rican Studies), edited by Liza Fiol-Matta and Mariam K. Chamberlain. A guide to multicultural curricular change with an emphasis on women of color and including sections on already transformed undergraduate curriculums.

All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith. A collection of materials for developing courses on black women.