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Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later
Visit the conference website for additional information and online registration. Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2011 at Hunter College in New York City. The conference will bring together three generations to witness, respond and analyze present day realities in law, politics, the confluence […]
Read More“Sex” is Not a Mechanism: Making “Sex-Specific Medicine” More Scientific
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Since the women’s health movement blossomed in the 1970s, there has been an ever-increasing trend toward examining all aspects of human health for evidence of sex differences. But some of the movement’s major achievements—such as a federal mandate to collect and analyze data by sex in all health research—may paradoxically turn out to be obstacles […]
Read MorePreventing Violence, Promoting Justice
Alisa Del Tufo, Loretta J. Ross, and Karen Morgaine
For registration and additional information, please visit the conference website. Sakhi for South Asian Women exists to end violence against women. They unite survivors, communities, and institutions to eradicate domestic violence, working to create strong and healthy communities. Sakhi uses an integrated approach that combines support and empowerment through service delivery, community engagement, media advocacy, […]
Read MoreJulia Ward Howe’s Hippolytus: Remaking Greek Tragedy for Nineteenth-Century America
Helene Foley
In 1857, Julia Ward Howe, poet, author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and later a prominent social activist and feminist, wrote a new version of Hippolytus for the then famous actors Edwin Booth and Charlotte Cushman. After its Boston premiere was abruptly and mysteriously cancelled, the play was not performed until 1911 and […]
Read MoreActivism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action
DESCRIPTION PROGRAM MEDIA PARTNERS VIDEOS AND PODCASTS A conference in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard Center for Research on Women Forty years ago, the Barnard Center for Research on Women began its mission of using research and knowledge to advance feminist scholarship and long-term partnerships with activist groups. Inspired by the new […]
Read MoreProtected: Gender Justice and Neoliberal Transformations
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Read MorePublic Feelings Salon
Lauren Berlant, Lisa Duggan, José Muñoz, Tavia Nyong'o, and Ann Pellegrini
The inaugural event in BCRW’s new Salon series, this engaged dialogue brings together several prominent and influential scholars whose work explores how affect and emotion influence public life. Just as feminism has sought to identify the ways in which the personal and the political are linked, the study of “public feelings” draws our attention to […]
Read MoreCreated in God’s Image: Intersections of Judaism, Gender, and Human Rights
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster '01
In this year’s Rennert Forum lecture, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster ’01 will reflect on her work as a human rights activist, mobilizing the Jewish community on campaigns against US-sponsored torture and modern slavery. Rabbi Kahn-Troster has worked tirelessly to bring about change in US foreign and domestic policy and to educate the public about the reality […]
Read MoreThe New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film
Kristine Harris, Elizabeth Otto, Vanessa Rocco, Clare Rogan, and Linda Nochlin
During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, a range of iconic female forms emerged to dominate the global pictorial landscape. Female athletes and adventurers, chorine stars, flappers, garçonnes, Modern Girls, neue Frauen, suffragettes, and trampky were all facets of the dazzling and urbane New Woman who came […]
Read MoreDiversity and Disease Ecology in Plant Communities
Alison G. Power
This year’s Distinguished Women in Science lecturer, Alison G. Power, is an expert in the ways in which the diversity of hosts, vectors and pathogens influences the epidemiology of diseases in plant communities. Environmental factors are key in shaping the temporal and spatial distributions of plant viruses in natural grasslands. Field experiments show that host […]
Read MoreThe Labor of Care: Rethinking Gender, Work, and Rights in the American Welfare State
Jennifer Klein '89
Once considered economically marginal, jobs in nursing, home health care, and childcare have moved to the center of the economy. In this year’s Women’s History Month lecture, Jennifer Klein ’89 will reconsider the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work. What will define work, rights, security, and dignity amid the […]
Read MoreViolating Performance: Women, Law and the State of Exception
Shayoni Mitra
The 1980s was a uniquely decisive decade for feminist politics in India. Defining, delineating and legislating to prevent crimes against women became a logical and immediate goal for the women’s movement. In this lecture Shayoni Mitra looks at two women’s ensembles in Delhi—Theatre Union and Buland Natya Manch—and how they aided and enlarged the concerns […]
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