SPEAK OUT
Tuesday February 6 Dr. Privett argues that the revival of goddess myth recovery is indicative of a fundamental shift in theories of myth, the body, and the politics of gender in the 21st century.
Thursday February 15 CROWNS OF GLORY: BORN AGAIN BEAUTY QUEENS
AND CAMPUS PAGEANTRY Higher education is a strange venue for showcasing beauty and bodies. Yet colleges and universities have been in the business of supporting student beauty pageants for over seventy-five years. Although once condemned by many churches, many of today’s pageants offer venues for asserting Christian convictions and the merging of God, grace, beauty, bodies, and gendered competition. This talk critically explores such trends Karen W. Tice is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Gender and Women’s studies where she teaches courses on gender, education, and popular culture. She also teaches regularly in the Women’s Studies program. She has developed and directs the Internship in Women’s Studies (WS 399) as well as teaches Feminist Theory (WS 650) on a regular basis. Her book, Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work (Illinois 1998) explores the construction of professional authority in social work and how the writing of case narratives created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions. Her published work includes articles on social reform and settlement work, women’s activist organizations, feminist pedagogy, and beauty pageantry as well as a manuscript under review on the makeover/pageant show The Swan. She is currently finishing a book manuscript titled “Queens of Academe: Campus Beauty Pageantry and Student Life.” Growing out of this book project is new research on Reality TV programs for adolescent girls as well as religion, beauty, and body work. Her previous work experience includes having served as director of two women’s community-based agencies.
Tuesday March 20 TALES FROM THE ARCHIVES: RESEARCHING THE LIFE
OF MARGARET OLIVIA SAGE (1828-1918)
Wednesday March 21 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?: WOMEN'S STUDIES, FEMINIST
STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Bowers will talk about her forthcoming study on intersections of Women's Studies, Gender Studies, and Feminist Theory and the politics inherent in the terms. Comments from panelists including Drs. Penelope Ingram, Joanne Tong (Department of English)and Ruth Crocker (Department of History) Thursday April 26 Move over; there’s
a new Eve in town, and she’s a far cry from the submissive subordinate ‘veil’d
in a cloud of fragrance’ who famously lost Paradise. John Milton Lubar’s Eve is a no-nonsense woman, telling it like it was with humor and poetry in this contemporary retelling of the tale that’s more subtle, more complex, and maybe - dare I say it? - more rewarding than the Biblical version .Boston Globe For more information: http://www.deborahlubar.com/level2/ev.html
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