Sociologists for Women in Society in Akron & Kent

March 8th

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GraduateCROW Gendersymposium 2010

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Very cool keynotes and performers (including a drag king show sponsored by SWS Akron on April 1st, details to be announced!) at the

sponsored by the student organization of the Graduate Committee of Research on Women and Gender in Akron, here is the schedule:

Wednesday, March 31 --- Student Union Theater

4:45 Welcome

5:00 – 6:00 Keynote Address by Kathy Kelly

6:00 – 7:00 Reception (free)

7:00 – 8:00 Performance by Staceyann Chin

Thursday, April 1 --- Martin Center Knight Rooms

8:00 – 8:30 Coffee and refreshments (free)

8:30 – 8:50 Opening remarks and introductions

8:55 – 11:50 Session One, panels 1.a – 2.a

11:50 – 12:55 Lunch at Martin Center Faculty Lounge and Restaurant

12:55 – 5:15 Session Two, Panels 2.b – 5

Friday, April 2 --- Martin Center Knight Rooms

9:00 – 9:25 Coffee and refreshments (free)

9:25 – 11:45 Session Three, Panels 6.a – 6.b

11:45 – 12:55 Lunch at Martin Center Faculty Lounge and Restaurant

12:55 – 4:15 Session Four, Panels 6.c – 10

Join GradCROW also on facebook and keep updated!

Glances from the winter meeting!

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The winter meeting of SWS was held from February 4 to 7 in Santa Barbara/CA. In beutiful setting roundtables, workshops and lectures centered around the theme "Left Coast Feminsims: Reimagingin Borders, Bodies and the Law."

Can you believe this is the "campus" of UC Santa Barbara? How do people get work done here?

For new Akron leaders Marci and Jennyerin it was the first time at a winter meeting,...

...while Jodi (and Mikaia!, here with G&S editor Dana Britton) are "pros" at the meetings...

...who proactively participated in an interesting debate/vote about award policies...

...and Dani? Slacked off with former SWS Akron faculty advisor Sarah at the banquet :-)

Check out more pictures from the winter meeting on our facebook album!

Vagina Monologues 2010

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...organized by Akron's women's study department (become a fan on their facebook page!)this year supported by SWS member Dani, Eightiiiies! Eve Ensler and the organization rocked. Both performances were sold out at the EJ Thomas Hall and the organization team was able to break their fundraiser record. Rrrocks!

Winter Meeting Coming up!

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Get ready for the winter meeting of SWS!

THEME: LEFT COAST FEMINISMS: Reimagining Borders, Bodies and the Law

DATES: February 4 - 7, 2010

PLACE: Hotel Mar Monte, Santa Barbara, CA

More info here!

New team in Akron

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The SWS chapter Akron is excited to announce the incoming, inspiring, new leadership team for the next year(s)! From left to right: Marci Cottingham (co vice-president), Michael Steiner (treasurer), Monica Oliva (co vice-president), and Jenneyerin Steele Stats (president)!

The Price of Pleasure - report

2009-11-15T11:08:00.000-08:00

About 100 people came to see the fantastic documentary The Price of Pleasure by Dr. Chyng Sun on November 12 2009 in the Student Union Theater which was organized by the Akron chapter of Sociologists for Women and Society and the new local chapter of Campus Coalition for Sexual Literacy founded by Darlene Forrest. It revealed some quite shocking facts about the 13 Billion dollar industry of pornography in the US (the revenues are bigger than those from NFL, NBA and major baseball league together). 13,000 porn videos are produced in one year; 900 million rentals were counted for the year 2003. Porn is cultural and economic mainstream promoted for example also by Time Warner who earns a million Dollar by cooperation with porn producers.
The nucleus of the film was a content analysis Dr. Chyng Sun carried out, in which she examines the top sellers of mainstream pornography in the US. The research team finds that in 98% of their sample verbal and physical abuse of women and 94% actual violence against women is the thrill for the spectators. Although the link between watching porn and acting out violence is scientifically not clearly examined, we know today that in 70% of child abuse porn was used in the setting. The documentary does a good job in not going into the “let’s abolish porn” corner, but in revealing that sexualized violence against women – through porn – is clearly rendering violence against women invisible. It also wisely deconstructs the argument that being critical of porn is being against sex, after all, “being critical about McDonalds does not mean you are against eating,” as one interviewee states.
About 50 people stayed for the Q and A session with Chyng which was moderated by Marie Bozin who also brought in own findings of qualitative projects on this topic. The discussion was characterized by the powerful impressions the documentary had left in the audience and brought – among other topics –to light the contradiction between illegal prostitution and the flourishing porn industry in this country and the overall missing critical discussion of porn. Clearly the argument that it is a good job opportunity for uneducated women is not as convincing, as only very few women gain wealth with pornography and can sustain a career in this business.
For those who could not make it, a DVD of the 60 minute documentary will be available in the Teaching Resources Lab in the sociology department of Akron. Also, you can check out a full length online preview online under this link in smaller resolution): .
Pictures and comments are shared on the facebook site of the event: A big thank you goes out to Dr. Chyng Sun who was more than a pleasant guest! More information on this outstanding scholar and person can be found on her website . I am really excited to thank the best SWS troupe I have ever worked with on this campus: Jennyerin Steele-Staats, Mike Steiner, Marci Cottingham, Monica Oliva, Darlene Forrest, Hannah Furnas (the undergrad gem in the round) and Jodi Ross, who made this event possible! The new cohort is totally rockin’ us! There is certainly more to come!

Come and see:

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Upcoming: 11/12/2009 The Price of Pleasure

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Mark your calendars!

SWS will be hosting the Ohio premiere of the documentary "The Price of Pleasure" on Thursday, November 12 2009 in the Student Union Theater - Univerity of Akron!

Synopsis of the film: Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries in the United States. It is estimated that the pornography industry's annual revenue has reached $13 billion. At the same time, the content of pornography has become more aggressive, more overtly sexist and racist.
The film features the voices of consumers, critics, and pornography producers and performers. It is particularly revealing when male pornographers openly discuss their views about women and how men should relate to them, and when male and female porn users candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. The film paints both a nuanced and complex portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, and liberty and responsibility are intertwined in the most intimate aspects of human relations.At the same time, the film examines the unprecedented role that commercial pornography now occupies in U.S. popular culture. Going beyond the debate of liberal versus conservative so common in the culture, The Price of Pleasure provides a holistic understanding of pornography as it debunks common myths about the genre.
The film features interviews with scholars of mass media (Gail Dines and Robert Jensen), economics (Richard Wolff), and psychology (Dr. Ana Bridges); writers on pornography and popular culture (Ariel Levy and Pamela Paul); producers and performers from the pornography industry (John Stagliano, Joanna Angel and Ernest Greene); and a former stripper/porn performer-turned-author (Sarah Katherine Lewis).

We are excited to announce that the filmmaker Chyn Sung will be joining us for a Roundtable - discussion! Dr. Chyng Sun is a Clinical Associate Professor of Media Studies at New York University. In addition to her scholarly research on gender, sexuality and race in the media, Dr. Sun is the creator of the documentaries Mickey Mouse Monopoly and Beyond Good and Evil. Her latest film The Price of Pleasure investigated the disturbing trend in contemporary pornography: as the industry has become more mainstream in recent years, the movies it produces have become harsher and more extreme, more overtly sexist and racist. How would these pornographic images affect our sexual imaginations and relationships? Dr. Chyng Sun explores the production, content, and consumption of pornography with the aim to help her audiences gain a holistic understanding of this controversial medium

SWS supports Take Back The Night!

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We are...

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...getting into gears with the preparation of the pornography documentary screening! So excited to have new activists Marci, Monica, Mike & Jennyerin join the action!

JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP AND SEE MORE PICS!

SWS supports CampusCureForCancer!

2009-10-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

SWS Akron (Jennyerin Stats & bambini, Kathy Feltey, Daniela Jauk) and GradCROW (Rosa Githiora) support CampusCureForCancer, a 5k walk for breast cancer awareness on campus! It was put on by Amanda, an awesome activist we can learn from a lot! Most definitely we will have a workshop with her on feminist activism on campus soon!

New officers...

2009-08-20T13:14:00.001-07:00

...are to be elected like every Fall for the Akron-paperwork. Darlene Forrest, the incoming vice president of SWS Akron is (more or less) enjoying herself on a mandatory retreat from the Graduate Student Government.

Here it is...

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Our new Banner...

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...is in progress! We voted 6:3 for the "curvy" one...

2008 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer - Dr. Cecilia L. Ridgeway

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Framed Before We Know It! from Akron-Kent SWS on Vimeo.

Betsy Lucal was amazing!

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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!

"The" Poster!

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

Gender Lectures: RVSP now!

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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.

The Vagina Monologues...

2009-02-14T03:39:00.000-08:00

... 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

SWS Winter Meeting Savannah

2009-02-11T12:48:00.000-08:00

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....

Save the dates: Gender Lectures 2009

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Be sure to save the dates - we welcome you to join us for the first
SWS Akron/Kent - Gender Lectures SPRING 2009

University of Akron: Thursday, February 26th
Dr. Betsy Lucal, Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, IUSB

1pm-4pm Workshop, Student Union, University of Akron
Making Sense of Intersex, Transgender and Bisexuality: Resources for teaching.
A related article and materials can be retrieved for free via Sociology Compass.

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

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

am-TBA,
Workshop: Mentoring
pm-TBA,
Lecture: Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations

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.

All lectures and workshops are free, and open to the interested public of whatever background! Please visit OUR BLOG for updates
and/or email da18@uakron.edu to join the Mailinglist, or if you have questions!

SWS is a non-profit scientific and educational organization of sociologists and others dedicated to exploring the contributions which sociology can, does and should make to the investigation of and humanization of current gender arrangements. The local SWS chapters of Akron and Kent have been active for many years now in an attempt to engage young students and encourage extra-academic allies and friends to participate in creating feminist social change. Together the SWS chapters of Akron and Kent were awarded the "Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award 2008/09" of the national SWS-organization, which was an incentive to organize the first SWS - gender lectures on each campus in Spring 2009, which will be continued in the following semesters.

Prep for the Winter Meeting Roundtable

2009-01-08T15:03:00.000-08:00

The SWS winter meeting in Savannah/Georgia is coming up in the beginning of February, hooray! Michelle, Jodi, and Tiffany (pic), Marie, and myself submitted an abstract and will facilitate a round table centered around activism of local SWS chapters. We start on individual and group interviews now, and are positive and visionary that a toolkit for local chapters will evolve down the road.

Panties & Pizza Gathering @ Marie's

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Panties for Community Organizations!

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A new activism with our Kent sistahs: we are collecting most needed panties for women-related community organizations in Akron! Flyers were made up quickly and a collection started....

Take Back The Night - In motion

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Take Back the Night - Pics

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Take Back The Night, Oct 10th 2008

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Join us for the Take Back The Night Walk in Akron!
When: Friday, October 10 @ 6-9pm
Where: First Grace United Church of Christ -- 350 S. Portage Path, Akron
More info: www.takebackthenight.org

& also check out the UAkron Liberation in Progress / L.I.P. service-feminists, who sponsor the event as well: http://lipserviceua.blogspot.com/

"Lucy:" elected as official activist SWS dog

2008-09-30T07:52:00.000-07:00

Thank you Lindsay! :-)

2nd Joint Meeting @ Kelly's

2008-09-26T18:42:00.000-07:00

...was very productive in a short time period because we all wanted to watch "the debate" this evening! The gender lectures take forms, two speakers are already confirmed (and more "big" names in discussion):
Dr. Betsy Lucal, Akron, February 26th
and Dr. Cecilia Ridgeway, Kent, March 6th!
We are also very excited about the upcoming Take Back The Night walk! More soon!

SWS Akron-Kent 2008/09 Kick-Off @ Dani's

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Fantastofeminist SWS Kick Off Meeting!

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Join us at Akron-Kent’s
Sociologists for Women in Society
Fall ’08 kickoff get-together!!

Everyone Welcome! Students, faculty, friends, current members, new members, non-members, all genders welcome!

Where: Daniela Jauk’s new Apartment
When: Friday, August 29th at 6 pm
RSVP: to Dani at da18@uakron.edu

We plan to set an agenda for SWS this year, catch up with each other after the summer, and meet & greet all the new students and faculty! Some snacks/beverages will be provided, but please feel free to bring something to share with the group.

We hope to see you all there!

We can do it - Feminist Lecturer Award

2008-06-26T08:53:00.000-07:00

The SWS Distinguished Lectureship was founded in 1985 as a way of recognizing members whose scholarship employs a feminist perspective and of making this feminist scholar available to campuses that are isolated, rural, located away from major metropolitan areas, and bereft of the resources needed to invite guest speakers.

We jointly applied for the Feminist Lecturer Award for the University of Kent, and: got it! We are more than happy that distinguished stratifictaion and inequality researcher Dr. Cecila Ridgeway/University of Stanford will visit us on campus!

Some of her books:
*Cecilia Ridgeway. Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World. Book manuscript in preparation.
*Cecilia Ridgeway (Ed.). Gender, Interaction and Inequality. NY: Springer-Verlag, 1992.
*Edward Lawler, Barry Markovsky, Cecilia Ridgeway, and Henry Walker (Eds.). Advances in Group Processes Vol. 9. Greenwich, CT: JAI, 1992.
*Cecilia Ridgeway. The Dynamics of Small Groups. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983

Walk a Mile a Success!

2008-04-21T05:24:00.000-07:00

Kathy, we LOVE you, and LIFE does too :)

2008-04-17T21:13:00.001-07:00

Our beloved faculty mentor, who is smart, loving, giving, connecting, and supporting got what she deserves: Dr. Kathryn Feltey was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Engagement LIFE Award today! Let's celebrate this feminist sharing personality! Let's celebrate ourselves being near her! Video of Mikaia enjoying the Gospel Chorus you can find on www.divanova08.blogspot.com ...

APRIL ACTIVISM: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

2008-04-04T12:53:00.000-07:00

SWS Akron-Kent supports the International Men's march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence! In Akron the march will be on April 19 2008. We'll recruit participants, and find high heels for volunteers. Get ready, dudes, and find more information on the Walk A Mile in Her Shoes Website (foto stolen there :).

Preach on sistah Jacobs!

2008-03-12T08:13:00.000-07:00

Subject: RAPE IS NO JOKE
To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing in response to the t-shirt you recently pulled off theshelves ("No Means No - well maybe if I'm drunk"). I am happy to hearthat you received enough outraged response to discontinue the sales ofthis t-shirt, which makes a joke out of rape and sexual assault, twoheinous crimes and abuses that certainly are not a joking matter.

According to the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN), 1 in 6women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. In the United States,someone is sexually assaulted every 2 minutes. If you think thesestatistics are horrifying, think about a woman's experience of sexualassault and rape. It is devastating - physically, emotionally, andspiritually - and the terrifying, lonely, and deprecating experienceoften creates a wound that cannot be healed in an entire lifetime.I do not believe that your company simply can remove these t-shirts fromstore shelves and suddenly be absolved of your tasteless and misogynistact.

I am urging you to publicly acknowledge your mistake and use thepublicity created by this acknowledgment to educate others about rapeand sexual assault. You can begin by donating any profit made from yourwoman-hating t-shirts to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network,which runs the National Sexual Abuse Hotline and carries out programs toprevent sexual assault, help victims, and ensure that rapists arebrought to justice.

Sincerely,Michelle R. JacobsDoctoral StudentDepartment of SociologyKent State University

SPOTLIGHT FROM OUR MAILINGLIST

2008-03-10T10:09:00.001-07:00

Hello Lovely Ladies,

as for the David & Goliath T-shirts, here is a link to check out the story and email the company: http://www.stayvocal.com/news/item/108.

I also attached the flier I made for the Send One Suit Week. Tell me what you think!!
-Alyssa

MARCH ACTIVISM: Women's History Month

2008-03-02T12:34:00.000-08:00

Throughout U.S. history, women of every race and class have made contributions that have helped to shape the country. In 1987, Congress declared the month of March Women’s History Month to recognize these contributions and to promote the teaching of women's history. We will particpate and facilitate women's history with leaflets on our campusses! Join us, and design your own leaflet on women's history for the campus! And/or learn more about the Women's History month from CNN (from which we cite fotograph above and intro-text), The National History od Women Project, who defined art/ists as this year's common theme, or the Akron Women's History Project.

2008-02-21T08:23:00.002-08:00

Open House Tea in the new Women's Studies department in Akron! We were there!

SWS-Winter Meeting 2008, Las Vegas

2008-02-10T13:10:00.000-08:00

Five of our SWS group are excited, as can be! From February 7-10, 2008 we attend the big SWS Winter-meeting in Las Vegas!

Leaving Las Vegas

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SWS Banquet & Night out!

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All five SWS sistahs, who went to the Wintermeeting, from the left: Marie, Kelly, Dani, Jodi, Michelle. In case you join us, you"ll have fun! :-)

Student Committee Meeting

2008-02-09T10:30:00.000-08:00

Unexpected much grad-students attended the Student Committee Meeting of SWS. Minjeong Kim, the Committee chairwoman (on the photo with Jodi) was very welcoming, and also encouraged students to particpate in regular committees of SWS. We will definitly have an active mailserv for exchanging our work, getting feedback, or just a quick proof read! Awesome!

Work & Fun!

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First impressions of Vegas...

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Just arrived & Networking starts!

2008-02-07T10:22:00.000-08:00

First Day of the Wintermeeting, just arrived in Las Vegas, and the networking starts! We were so happy to meet our incoming faculty member Sarah Swider at the conference, and spend many chatting, debating, and laughing with her. Jodi also met former students (now professors) from the Univerity of Akron.

First Work Meeting in Akron

2008-02-01T12:50:00.000-08:00

First work meeting of SWS Akron and Kent in the Newman Library! Many of us did not forget to wear red, since February 1st is kick off fot the American heart month, and national wear red day in support for women's health. What feminist fun we decided at the meeting, you see on this blog!

SWS AKRON AND KENT: STRONG TOGETHER!

2008-01-18T11:54:00.000-08:00

The new year started with a new plan: The SWS-chapters of Kent and Akron decided in a kick off meeting to work together more closely! A humongous list of ideas came up at our first meeting this year - stay tuned! Thanks to Kelly Mc Arthur for hosting the meeting!

COOP 2007: Take Back the Night!

2007-10-02T13:07:00.000-07:00

Here is where "the fusion" began: The SWS chapters in Kent and Akron collaborated on the "Take back the night!" protest in Akron downtown, with all their collective voice and own transparents, in October 2007.