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.

Women's Research Forum

Date/Time: 
04/20/2010

Women's Research Forum

Location: Chancellor's Conference Room, Quinn Administration Building, UMass Boston

Expert Profile

Location: 
United States
39° 44' 20.9544" N, 104° 59' 4.9308" W

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.

Location

Denver, CO
United States
39° 44' 20.9544" N, 104° 59' 4.9308" W

Expert Profile

Location: 
United States
34° 10' 0.8112" N, 118° 8' 10.3344" W
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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.

Location

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

Expert Profile

Location: 
United States
40° 42' 51.3684" N, 74° 0' 21.5028" W
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Gloria Jacobs is Executive Director of the Feminist Press, a non-profit publisher affiliated with the City University of New York. The Press has been publishing books by and for women around the globe for 36 years, and also publishes WSQ, the Women’s Studies Quarterly. A journalist, author and feminist activist, Ms. Jacobs was for many years the Executive Editor of Ms. magazine. She is the co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich and Elizabeth Hess, of Re-making Love: The Feminization of Sex, which analyzed the convergence of the women’s movement and the sexual revolution. Her articles have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Guardian (UK), Mother Jones, Working Mother, and New York Woman. Working as a consultant for the United Nations, she edited and wrote several major reports on the status of women around the world.

Location

New York, NY
United States
40° 42' 51.3684" N, 74° 0' 21.5028" W

WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM

Date/Time: 
03/16/2010

WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM

All WST Center Events are co-sponsored with ADVANCE, free, and open to the public. Please RSVP to Irina Nikiforova if you are interested in attending.

I Would Rather Be A Cyborg Than A Goddess: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics

Date/Time: 
04/15/2010

JASBIR PUAR, Sociology, Rutgers University

Location: Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)

Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonderdrugs

Date/Time: 
03/04/2010

JONATHAN METZL, Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

Author of Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonderdrugs and Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia.

Location: Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)

 

Red Networks: Women Writers and the Blacklist in Television

Date/Time: 
03/13/2010

Carole Stabile, Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society; Professor, English and School of Journalism and Communication, will talk about the blacklisting of women television writers during the anti-communist crusade at this CSWS “Road Scholars” presentation.

“Understanding Disabled Women’s Experience with Abuse: Recasting Identities while Conducting Collaborative Anticipatory Research”

Date/Time: 
03/10/2010

Deborah Olson, assistant professor, Special Education

This project complements research being conducted by the Trauma Healing Project, which is examining how survivors experience trauma in order to understand the mechanisms of healing and to promote healing practices to service providers and the community.

The research will be expanded to include women with disabilities who are also survivors of trauma.

Location: 330 Hendricks Hall, Jane Grant Conference Room

Finding Face: A Film About Violence Against Women

Date/Time: 
03/04/2010

“‘Finding Face’ details the controversial case of Tat Marina, who was attacked with acid in Cambodia in 1999. At 16, Marina was a rising star in Phnom Penh’s karaoke music scene. She was coerced into an abusive relationship with Cambodia’s Undersecretary of State, Svay Sitha, and subsequently doused with a liter of nitric acid—allegedly by his wife—that disfigured her face. A decade later, despite the fact that there were multiple witnesses to the crime, no charges have ever been filed in the case” (from the Finding Face website).

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