Women in Media & News (WIMN) founder and feminist media critic Jennifer L. Pozner offered a workshop, titled "Project Brainwash: Why Reality TV is Bad for Women," on Saturday, April 21. The workshop was held at 12:30 p.m. in the Blackwell Room in Demarest Hall.
Screening provocative clips from popular reality shows like "The Bachelor," "America's Next Top Model" and "Flavor of Love," Pozner e... More >>
Professor and Food Activist Julie Guthman will join the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men on Wednesday, April 11, concluding a year-long discussion of the politics of food. Guthman's talk, "Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Reflections on the Origins and Character of Contemporary Food Activism," will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library.
There w... More >>
Seonagh Odhiambo, a renowned choreographer and former predoctoral fellow with the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, has focused her work on water, creating several dances for the concert stage and site specific works. On Wednesday, March 21, the day before "World Water Day," Odhiambo and dancers from her Los Angeles and Toronto-based dance company, Asava Dance, will share a public per... More >>
The Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men continued its year-long discussion of food, politics and gender with a Fisher Center lecture from food anthropologist Carole Counihan. As part of the Digesting Gender series, Counihan discussed food activism in Italy and the role of both men and women in this aspect of Italian food culture.
"Food - its production, its distribution and its consumpti... More >>
The Women's Studies Department will welcome Nancy D. Campbell to campus on Tuesday, March 6. Campbell, a professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will discuss "'Using Women' to 'Gendering Addiction': Masculinities and Femininities in Drug-Using Social Worlds" at 5 p.m. in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library.
In her lecture, Campbell will add... More >>
The Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men will welcome filmmaker Nancy Ghertner on Wednesday, Feb. 22, to discuss her latest film "After I Pick the Fruit," which follows the lives of five farmworkers in Sodus, N.Y. Beginning at 5 p.m. in the Intercultural Affairs House, Ghertner will explore what we can learn from farmworkers, and will ask the community to more carefully consider the quest... More >>
Professor of Religious Studies Susan Henking has been named the president of Shimer College, the ‘Great Books' college of Chicago. Founded in 1853, Shimer is a small, independent four-year liberal arts college in Chicago, Ill. Henking, who has served on the HWS faculty since 1988, will officially take the reins on July 1, 2012.
"Susan's dedication and service to the Colleges over the past two dec... More >>
Researcher and author Carole Counihan will join the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men to speak about Italian food activism on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Counihan's talk, "Gender and Food Activism in Italy," will continue a year-long discussion on food and will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library.
Last semester, the Fisher Center for the Study of Women a... More >>
Kelly Biggs '11 recently got the opportunity to fulfill her dream of working for a women's advocacy group when she was hired as a special events intern by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) Pro-Choice America, a national organization advocating for and providing comprehensive information on reproductive rights in the U.S.
"I had been interested in working for a wo... More >>
Students in Professor of Women's Studies Betty Bayer's senior seminar are making waves in the feminist community online, opening up a vital dialogue on feminism for today's young women. The students have set into motion a new section, "Student Think Tank," in the online magazine On the Issues. Featuring a wide array of articles and scholarly essays, the magazine is a progressive, feminist quarter... More >>
