Women's Studies

May 2005 Women's Studies Newsletter

Date
May 2005

This May 2005 Women's Studies Department newsletter includes news of Dickinson events, students, professors, and alumni.

Dickinson Professors at Forum on Women in Beijing

Date
September 21, 1995

In the September 21, 1995 Dickinsonian, Chris Zubowicz reported on the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum on Women held at the Olympic Stadium in Beijing and the experiences of the two Dickinson Professors, Amy Farrell and Susan Rose, who attended.

Student Complains about Lack of News Coverage

Date
April 29, 1993

In this letter to the editor in the April 29, 1993 edition of The Dickinsonian, Hannah Fretz, '94, complains about the lack of coverage of Women's History Week and the Women's Studies Conference other than two photographs in a paper filled with more trivial news.

"Adios, Barbie" Talk by Ophira Edut

Date
February 7, 2007

As part of Body Appreciation Week '07, Dickinson hosted Ophira Edut, author of Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, as well as a national speaker, activist and entrepreneur, to
give a talk on positive self-image,
held in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium on February 7, 2007.

Poetry Reading by Beth Frost

Date
April 11, 1997

The Women's Studies Program and English Department sponsored Beth Frost, professor at Fordham University and former-Dickinson College English and Women's Studies professor, to do a reading of her own poetry on April 11, 1997 in Memorial Hall.

Talk and Reading by Margaret Starbird

Date
April 2, 1997

The Women's Studies Program and the Religious Affairs Office sponsored a talk and reading by Margaret Starbird, entitled "Was Jesus Married?" which looked at her book The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail.  The talk was held on April 2, 1997 in the Hartman Alumni House.

Talk on Sexual Enslavement during World War II

Date
March 25, 1997

A lecture was given by Christopher Simpson on March 25, 1997 in Weiss Center for the Arts about "Comfort Women" who were victims of sexual enslavement during World War II.  The talk accompanied an exhibit in the Trout Gallery on the same subject.  The talk was sponsored by the Sociology, History, and Anthropology Departments, the Women's Studies and International Studies Programs, the Clarke Center, the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Trout Gallery.

February 1997 Lectures on Women's Studies

Date
February 20 and 24, 1997

The Women's Studies program sponsored two lectures in February of 1997.  One was given by Kristen Miller, a doctoral student of sociology at the University of Delaware, on lesbian identity, and the other was given by Barbara Ozieblo, a professor of American Literature at the University of Malaga, on feminism in Spain.

Talk on Women's Political Issues

Date
December 4, 1996

The Women's Studies Program and the Clarke Center sponsored Jo Freeman, a
noted author, speaker  and political activist, to speak on women's
political issues in a talk titled, "Feminism vs. Family values: Women in
the Democratic and Republican Parties."  The talk took pace in Memorial
Hall on December 4, 1996.