Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

In 1970, the field of women’s, gender and feminist studies was launched and was able to thrive in the ensuing years. NCRW was established in 1982 to create a supportive network for the burgeoning women’s research movement. Today, there are more than 900 women’s studies programs in the US with more than 10,000 courses offered on college campuses. Much of the curriculum is interdisciplinary and, in many instances, mainstreamed across subject areas. From the social sciences to liberal arts, fine arts and the sciences, feminist theory and framing (especially the intersection of race, gender and class) is having an important impact across disciplines in academia and beyond.

"Christine Jorgensen: Transsexuality and a Transnational Media Spectacle in the 1950s and 1960s": a lecture by Susan Stryker

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 2:54pm
Member Organization: 
Newcomb College Institute
Date/Time: 
04/12/2010

Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She earned her Ph.D. in United States History at UC Berkeley in 1992, and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship in Sexuality Studies at Stanford University, as well as distinguished visiting positions at Harvard University, UC Santa Cruz, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and Macquarie University in Sydney. She is the Emmy Award-winning director of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, a public television documentary about a 1966 riot against police oppression by transgender prostitutes in San Francisco.

Angela Davis Honors Beverly Guy-Sheftall During NWSA Keynote Address

Submitted by jmumbey on Wed, 03/24/2010 - 4:05pm

Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. She has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. Davis served as the keynote speaker for the 2009 National Women's Studies Association's annual conference where she honored Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., NWSA President & Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Womens Studies at Spelman College.

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National Women's Studies Association

Measuring Gender Series: Doing Feminist-Demography? Measuring Gender as a System in Rural Bangladesh using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 2:05pm
Member Organization: 
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Date/Time: 
03/26/2010

Jill Williams, University of Colorado, Boulder

Location: 2239 Lane Hall

Spaces of Gendered Vulnerability: A Missing Link in Global Reproductive Health

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 1:52pm
Member Organization: 
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Date/Time: 
03/25/2010

IRWG cosponsored event: Mark Padilla

Location: SPH Crossroads 1690

This talk is part of the School of Public Health's Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health Speaker Series.

Why So Few?

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 4:09pm
Member Organization: 
American Association of University Women
Date/Time: 
03/25/2010

In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law, and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers?

Drawing upon a large and diverse body of research, AAUW’s report provides compelling evidence of environmental and social barriers—including gender bias, stereotypes, and the climate within college and university science and engineering departments—that continue to limit women’s participation and progress.

Gender Across Borders IV: Globalisms

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 2:47pm
Member Organization: 
Institute for Research & Education on Women and Gender
Date/Time: 
04/03/2010

Gender Across Borders is a biennial forum for the interdisciplinary study and discussion of women and gender where scholars in fields ranging from the health sciences to literary studies meet to share their research and work. 

Gender Across Borders IV: Globalisms

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 2:43pm
Member Organization: 
Institute for Research & Education on Women and Gender
Date/Time: 
04/02/2010

Gender Across Borders is a biennial forum for the interdisciplinary study and discussion of women and gender where scholars in fields ranging from the health sciences to literary studies meet to share their research and work. 

Nancy Falchuk interviews Noam Shalit

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 5:00pm

An emotional interview with Noam Shalit, the father of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas on June 25, 2006. Gilad has been held captive in the Gaza Strip since his abduction.
 

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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.

 

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

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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.

Religion & Law Project:

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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The Donna Sudarsky Memorial Working Paper Series:
 
 
"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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