Take Back The Night, Oct 10th 2008

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

Thank you Lindsay! :-)

2nd Joint Meeting @ Kelly's

...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

Fantastofeminist SWS Kick Off Meeting!

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

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