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Gender & Women's Studies

May 2009 Archives

Our Students

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GWST is proud of three of our majors who will be studying abroad in the fall semester. Sabah Ghulamali will be traveling to Brisbane, Australia to study at the University of Queensland where she plans to take Gender and Women's studies classes, some of which intersect with studies on Australian society. Katrin Patterson is off to the University of Botswana, in Gaborone where she will be taking courses in women's studies and Africana studies, and is also hoping to volunteer in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. Sarah Solomon will spend next semester in Bamako, Mali to participate in a Gender, Health and Development program through the School for International Training. While abroad, Sarah will be completing an independent research project focusing on methods of resistance among Malian women.

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Recipients of this year's Jo Ann E. Argersinger Award for Academic Achievement in Gender and Women's Studies are:

Teresa Foster, graduating in May with a double major in GWST and History. Teresa plans to enter graduate school at UMBC this fall. Teresa is this year's winner of the National Society Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland History Award given to an outstanding graduate student in history. After earning her Ph.D. Teresa plans to teach women's history;

Kristin Tata, who will graduate with a B.A. in Visual Arts with a concentration in graphic arts and a minor in GWST which she hopes to combine into a career in design; and

Jennifer Higgins, who plans to continue advocacy work in progressive politics and then graduate school in feminist studies and public policy.

The Jo Ann E. Argersinger Award was named for a former UMBC Provost.

Recipients of this year's Joan S. Korenman Award for Service to Gender and Women's Studies are:

Linda N. Uche, graduating with a BA in Biology and a minor in GWST plans to continue teaaching in Baltimore County and pursuing her work at Associated Health Resources Center before entering graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in Public Health; and

Jennifer Keeter, who will continue at UMBC as a GWST major and seek an internship which will continue to spur her interest in learning.

The Joan S. Korenman Award recognizes students who provide exemplary service to Gender and Women's Studies and is named for the founding director of the Women's Studies Program at UMBC.

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New Edition of the Feminist Theory Reader, Carole McCann and Seung-kyung Kim (Eds.)

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Carole McCann, Associate Professor and Director of Gender & Women's Studies and Seung-kyung Kim, Associate Professor, Women's Studies, UM College Park, have recently completed the second edition of the Feminist Theory Reader. Scheduled for release on July 17, 2009, the Feminist Theory Reader, second edition, continues its unique approach of anthologizing the important works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. Classic works in feminist theory by scholars such as Simone De Beauvoir, Gloria Anzaldua, Judith Butler, belle hooks, Nancy Hartsock, Deniz Kandiyoti,and Chandra Talpade Mohanty appear alongside cutting-edge scholarship by Paula Moya, Aiwha Ong, Raewyn Connell, Suzanne Walters, Mrinalina Sinha, and Rhacel ParreƱas. The new edition significantly updates both the local and global perspectives that distinguished the first edition, incorporating themes and debates on the rise in the contemporary feminist scholarship.

"At last an anthology that does not embody a mythical universal woman or make us choose between the local and global, between theory and practice, between academia and grassroots social movements. This is a wonderful classroom tool with which to theorize feminism into its global futures."
Banu Subramaniam, Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

To learn more about the new edition click http://www.routledge.com/9780415994774

New Crosslisting for Fall 2009

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GWST 490 - Issues and Themes in Black, Queer and Feminist Film

In this course we will be examining prominent issues and themes in selected films (on video and DVD) that fall within the categories "Black," "Queer," and "Feminist." These designations are themselves problematic and will be discussed in greater detail. Most of the films will be narrative (as opposed to strictly experimental) and will deal with important social and theoretical issues around race, gender, and sexuality. This course is not just about watching films. It will involve discussion, reading and writing as well. We shall make extensive use of selected theoretical and critical texts borrowed from the disciplines of psychoanalysis, feminist, literary, and queer theory, as well as from film history and theory. Prior knowledge of film-making and/or film history is not required. Also listed as ART 429.