Archive for March, 2009
Knitting Clio and a Friend Sing Some Suffrage Songs
This was recorded at last year’s June Baker Higgins Gender Studies Conference, but it’s taken this long to get it edited and posted. I’m the one on the guitar. The good singer is Beth Lorenzo from the Music Department here at CCSU.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Back Up Your Birth Control Blogging, One Day Late
As usual, I’m a day late in blogging, but I’ll just blame it on the fact that I was exhausted from my trip to Bethesda for my talk at the NLM!
So, better late than never — yesterday was the Back Up Your Birth Control Day of Action sponsored by the National Institute for Reproductive Health. [...]
Good News, Bad news, and a shameless plug
Recent issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education have reported good news and bad news in college health. The good news: it looks like the new spending bill will lower the cost of contraceptives at campus health centers. The bad news is that while demand for mental health services has increased, college counseling centers remainded [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Knitting Clio=Gloria Steinem
Kittywampus posted a poll, Which Western feminist icon are you? [Kitty is Angela Davis -- interesting result for a white woman from North Dakota]
I’m a sucker for these, so I took it, and my result — Gloria Steinem:
“You are the McDonalds(tm) of liberal feminism, though you used to expouse some pretty radical ideas, you [...]
Women’s History Book Club: History Matters Part II
Part II of the discussion of Judith Bennett’s History Matters is now up at Historiann. I’ve only read the first few chapters of the book, so don’t feel like I can comment on the work as a whole. What I will say is that Bennett, while criticizing historians who presume a premodern “golden age” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Celebrate International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. Here is the official website. For more on the origins of IWD and National Women’s History Month, go to the National Women’s History Project. They also have sent out the following proclamation from President Obama:
Presidential Proclamation on Women’s History Month
Obama pays tribute to women who helped preserve, protect the environment
THE [...]
Book Club double shot: Netherland and The Women
Regular readers of this blog probably noticed that there have been no book club entries for quite some time (the last one was back in December). That’s because this week was the first time we’ve been able to meet. The January meeting got postponed so that folks could watch the Inauguration festitivites, and February got [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lizzie Simon at CCSU: Stigma Busting Par Excellence
Wednesday night I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Lizzie Simon
author of Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4D. The talk was organized by the Central Access and Student Development office at CCSU, NAMI On Campus, and the Farmington Valley Chapter of NAMI-CT. She started with describing how she explained mental illness [...]
Respecting Choice
Since my work is on contraception, not assisted reproductive technologies (ART), I’ve been hesitant to weigh in on the controversy surrounding Nadya Suleman. Since this has come up in my course on disability history — in the context of eugenics (especially sterilization of women deemed “feeble-minded”) and “freak shows” (step right up and see [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Women’s History Nostalgia Trip: Classic feminist programming for children
A group of friends and I are having a great time swapping favorite clips of children’s programs with feminist themes on Facebook. So that my technophobic colleague out West can join in the fun, here are some of the highlights.
The first is a clip from Sesame Street, proclaiming the various careers women can pursue:
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