2/28/2009

Betsy Lucal was amazing!





Report and lecture mp3 to follow soon, more pictures of the event here! Thank you all for coming out, helping out and co-creating this compelling workshop, the lecture and the potluck!

2/18/2009

"The" Poster!

Sarah is the gorgeous feminist artist of our cool Gender Lectures poster!

2/16/2009

Gender Lectures: RVSP now!

RVSP for workshops required!
Please email layers2@kent.edu until February 17th!


University of Akron
Thursday, February 26th

Dr. Betsy Lucal, Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, IUSB


1-4pm Workshop: Making Sense of Intersex, Transgender and Bisexuality: Resources for teaching.
Student Union Room 308

The workshop will focus on helping participants make sense of these complex topics so that they can better include them in their courses. Betsy Lucal will provide a conceptual framework, suggestions for readings and films and other recommendations for successful introduction of these important topics. Recommended reading: Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)Constructing Intersexuality, Transgender and Bisexuality. Sociology Compass. March 2008.

6 -7.30pm, Lecture: Talkin’ about a (Still Missing?) Revolution: Reflections on Two Decades of Feminist Sociology
Student Union Ballroom B, free childcare provided

"In this paper, I analyze the numerous examinations of the state of the feminist revolution in US sociology. I provide some contextualization by positioning the debate alongside my own experiences as a US feminist sociologist, suggesting that one’s standpoint influences one’s assessment of the status and extent of feminist revolution in US sociology. As someone young enough to have entered sociology with the assumption that studying gender was legitimate and perfectly acceptable, and that I could build a career as a feminist sociologist, my perspective is likely different from those who entered a more hostile field in the 1960s and 1970s. I also examine the role of organizations, particularly Sociologists for Women in Society, in the process of disciplinary transformation." Betsy Lucal

Betsy Lucal is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University South Bend, where she also teaches in the Women’s Studies program. She teaches courses on gender and sexuality, sociological theory, sociology of food, social movements and making sense of college life. She serves as Deputy Editor for Gender & Society and on the editorial boards of Teaching Sociology and the Gender Section of Sociological Compass. She currently chairs the American Sociological Association’s Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology and is completing a term as chair of ASA’s Committee on the Status of GLBT Persons in Sociology. She is a member of IU’s Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) and winner of the IUSB Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as the all-IU Sylvia E. Bowman Award for teaching excellence. She earned all of her degrees at Kent State University (BGS ’89, MA ’91, PhD ’96).
Homepage of Betsy Lucal


Kent State University
Friday, March 6th
Dr. Cecilia Ridgeway, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University
SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecturer 2009

1-3pmWorkshop: Mentoring
Merrill Hall Room 221, Workshop and Free Luncheon (RSVP required)

4-5:30pm Lecture: Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations
Merrill Hall Room 107, Lecture (Free Childcare Provided in Merrill Hall Room 221)

Cecilia L. Ridgeway is the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. Her research addresses the role that social hierarchies in everyday interaction play in stratification and social inequality, especially in regard to gender. She is the author of Gender, Interaction, and Inequality (Springer-Verlag, 1992) and articles on this topic in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Journal of Social Issues. She is past editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and recipient of the 2005 Cooley-Mead Award for career contribution to social psychology.
Homepage of Cecilia Ridgeway.

2/14/2009

The Vagina Monologues...

... took place in Akron (as in hundreds of other places) in honor of the V-Day, with fantastic belly dance..

... and two SWS members as performers - AWESOME job Mary and Kelly!...

...and a lotta vaginas in many forms (here presented by the fatastofeminist GradCROW president and L.I.P.Service activist Stephanie).


Here come the moving pictures!

Vagina Monologues: The Lists


Vagina Monologues: Reclaiming Cunt



2/11/2009

SWS Winter Meeting Savannah



Quick impressions from the SWS Savannah winter meeting, a full album can be found here. Ou own roundtable on local SWS chapters went really good! And the standing ovations for the Gender & Society founders (in the pic Judith Lorber, Mary Frank Fox, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Chris Bose) were just compelling among the really good and intense program this year....