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WOMEN'S STUDIES
BULLETIN
December/January 2006-2007
Table of Contents:
Events
Women's History
Month Update
"This is What a Feminist Cooks Like"
Cookbook
NIU 2006 Conference for Young Women Update
Crafty Women Holiday Sale
People
Student in the Spotlight
Faculty in the Spotlight
IMPROVE THE LIVES OF STUDENTS
GIVE TO WOMEN’S STUDIES
As you plan year-end charitable giving, please consider contributing to
the Women’s Studies Program or the Mothers Memorial Scholarship
Fund! Checks made out to the NIU Foundation may be sent to the program.
In the comment line, please specify which account you wish to have credited
(Women's Studies Program or Mother's Memorial Scholarship Fund).
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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH UPDATE
We received a number of high-quality applications for the Women's History
Month poster designer position this year. After reviewing the submissions,
the committee selected Carolyn Paluch for the position. Paluch is a junior
Visual Communications student at NIU. Paluch is also the graphic designer
for Health Enhancement Services and for the School of Art's Jack Olson
Gallery. Watch for the poster advertising exciting Women's History Month
events, which will be out in February.
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"THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST COOKS LIKE"
COOKBOOK
The "This is What a Feminist Cooks Like" Cookbook CD is available!
The cookbook is filled with nearly 50 recipes donated by Women's Studies
students, faculty, staff and friends. At $10.00, it makes a great holiday
gift! Sales of the cookbook help fund the Mothers Memorial Scholarship.
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NIU 2006 CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN
UPDATE
This year's Conference for Young Women was a real success. Enrollment
exceeded our expectations, and the girls' comments reflected their appreciation
for what they experienced throughout the day. One girl wrote, "I
got the fact that women are powerful today and we have to stress this
to the world," while another wrote, "I am glad to say that because
of today, I feel like I should really go to college." Thank you to
everyone who helped organize, presented at, or contributed toward scholarships
for the 2006 Conference for Young Women!
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CRAFTY WOMEN HOLIDAY SALE
We have many people to thank for making the CRAFTY WOMEN holiday sale
a success! Thank you to all of the crafty women and men who donated items
for the sale and to Women's Alliance for helping to staff the sale. Thank
you also to everyone who purchased items. The money raised from all purchases
goes to benefit the Mothers Memorial Scholarship fund.
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PEOPLE
STUDENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Ashleigh Burge is pursuing her M.A. in Philosophy and a Graduate Certificate
in Women's Studies. Burge is also one of our Women's Studies graduate
teaching assistants. She says she enjoys her position in part because
it allows her to have "more personal interaction with students than
in other departments."
Burge came to NIU after completing her B.A. in Philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. While an undergraduate, Burge was introduced to Women's Studies. During the summer between her first two years, she investigated the topic of feminist ethics in a six-week intensive study program in Oregon. Prior to graduating from Calvin College, Burge was awarded their Bouwsma Memorial Scholarship, which recognizes students who demonstrate "outstanding achievement and continuing promise in philosophy."
Burge believes that there is great value in Women's Studies. She recommends that students take Women's Studies courses because they "provide a venue for students to analyze aspects of their own lived experiences, like gender socialization, that are so pervasive that people tend to miss them." She also encourages students to "Ask questions in class and do the assigned readings!"
Burge's current research focuses specifically on the interaction between
feminism and religious beliefs. She is planning to graduate in May 2007.
After graduating, she hopes to move to North Carolina and look for a teaching
position there.
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FACULTY IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Mary Shelden is the Credit Programs Coordinator for the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, External Programming, as well as a Visiting Assistant
Professor for Women's Studies and English. She received her B.A. in English
Literature from Northeastern Illinois University in 1987. She then went
on to NIU and received her M.A. in Rhetoric in 1994 and her Ph.D. in American
literature in 2003.
Shelden's research focuses primarily on Louisa May Alcott, whom Shelden calls "a dutiful and rebellious daughter of the Transcendentalist circle." Shelden is the secretary and principal founder of the Louisa May Alcott Society, the first scholarly society dedicated to studying Alcott's work. She was recently awarded an SPS Council award for her work in founding this society.
Shelden became interested in Women's Studies-related issues at an early
age, but her interest was renewed when she took Diana Swanson's "Weird
Books by Women Authors" class during her graduate program. Shelden
is interested in Gender Studies and the "overlap between Women's
Studies and LGBT Studies." She believes that "anyone who has
a mother, a daughter, a sister, anyone who will work with women as colleagues,
supervisors, or clients would benefit" from taking a Women's Studies
course. Moreover, Shelden values feminist foremothers: "I'm profoundly
grateful for the many women who broke ground . . . to plant the field
we study. We are all the beneficiaries of women who faced seemingly insurmountable
challenges so that we could simply get an education, let alone study women's
histories and cultures. There is so much we know now that we could not
possibly have known without the work of our foremothers—and we still
have so much to discover!"
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students named NIU one of the top 100 campuses in the US for LGBT students. Women's Studies was ranked as the second most LGBT friendly academic program on campus.
Monica Avina, Amanda Knittel and Vanessa Zuno will be presenting their paper, "Gender, education and young Latinas: A study of cultural gender expectations," at the Midwest Sociological Society conference in April.
Elizabeth Bowman presented her paper, "Phoenix Envy," during the "Shakespeare's Sisters: Women Writers and Stationers in Early England" panel at the 2006 Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference in Chicago.
Louise Ciallella published "Making Emotion Visible: Felipe Trigo and La sed de amar (educación social)" in Decimonóica (Winter 2006). She presented "Fear, Fascination and Womanly Bodies: Notes on Illustrada Narratives in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Spain" at the Letropolis Conference at SUNY-Stony Brook, NY, in October. Ciallella also has a forthcoming book, Quixotic Modernists: Reading Gender in Tristana, Trigo, and Martínez Sierra, to be published by Bucknell University Press in early 2007, and an article, "Entre nosotras and Otras cosas: Notes on Feminine and Feminist Narrative Discourse in Women's Columns in El Imparcial, 1899-1902" in Letras Femeninas.
Nadine Franklin directed A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters" at Kishwaukee Community College, November 8-11.
Valerie Guyant was the secretary for the "Modern Literature" session at the 2006 MMLA conference.
Caresse John presented "Advocating the Personal" and was the moderator of the "Manipulations of Low Culture: Masterpieces of High Culture" session at the 2006 MMLA Conference. John was also the secretary for the "Teaching Writing in College" session.
Amy Levin has been invited to serve on a Ford Foundation funded strategic planning team for the National Women's Studies Association. Levin's edited collection, Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities, will be released December 28, 2006. NIU History Professor David Kyvig wrote the forward. Former NIU Art Education Professor and Women’s Studies faculty associate Elizabeth (Beau) Vallance is also a contributor.
Amy Newman is now the poetry critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. She served as the October online Poet-in-Residence for London-based newspaper The Guardian.
Kei Nomaguchi has two forthcoming articles. "Time of One's Own: Employment, Leisure, and Delayed Transition to Motherhood in Japan" will be in Journal of Family Issues 27 (Dec. 2006); "Maternal Employment, Nonparental Care, Mother-Child Interactions, and Children's Outcomes During Preschool Years" will be in the Journal of Marriage and Family 68 (Dec. 2006).
Patricia Rickett has been inducted into the Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society NIU Chapter, based on her research in Women's Studies and globalization. Rickett focuses on the retention of Hispanic girls and peer group learning in U.S. schools.
Lise Schlosser presented her paper, "The ordering and joining thereof: The (Con)Text of Margaret Cavendish's Plays," during the "Shakespeare's Sisters…" panel at the 2006 MMLA Conference.
Lorraine Schmall published "Birth Control as a Labor Law Issue" in the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Spring 2006 issue.
Tanuja Singh presented the keynote at the JP Morgan Chase Seminar on Cultural Considerations in Global Business, on October 27 in Rockford. Singh also co-authored two articles, "Attitude towards Ecotourism and Environmental Advocacy: Profiling the Dimensions of Sustainability," to be published in the Journal of Vacation Marketing, and "Marketing Strategies of Multinational Corporations: Empirical Evidence from the United States and Australia," to be published in Mid-American Journal of Business (Spring 2007).
Together with collaborators from Argonne National Laboratory, Carol Thompson co-authored "Indium absorption on GaN under metal-organic chemical vapor deposition conditions," [Applied Physics Letters 89, 161915 (2006)], published in the October 30, 2006, issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
Rey Ty received the "Outstanding Graduate Student
Research Award" at the 2006 Midwest Research to Practice Conference
for his paper, "GABRIELA: Contributions of a Third-World Women’s
Movement to Feminist Theory and Practice" at the University of Missouri,
in St. Louis, MO.
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OPPORTUNITIES & ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Women's Studies Program subscribes to Feminist Teacher. Brief pieces on teaching strategies may be sent to feminist-teacher@uwec.edu with subject line "Teaching Notes." Send a hard copy to G. Cohee, Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Box 1829, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. For additional information, check the latest issue in our office or visit the Feminist Teacher website .
Asian Women, published by Sookmyung Women's University in South Korea, seeks submissions concerning women's issues. For additional information, email Kyung Ock Chun.
Submissions are being accepted for Graduating Gender: Queer Grad Students Reading Culture, a collection of graduate student essays on queer/trans theory, gender issues and cultural studies. For information, email J.M. Battis visit the related website.
Indiana University-Bloomington announces new Gender Studies Ph.D. To learn more, visit the Indiana University website or email the program.
Submissions are being accepted for Not Your Mother's Feminism, a collection on feminist generations. Abstracts are due by January 15, 2007. Visit the related website, or email Kellie Bean for additional information.
Resentment In/Of Women's Studies, a conference presented by the Feminist Studies Group of the CUNY Graduate Center, is accepting abstracts for paper and panel proposals. Abstracts are due by January 15, 2007. Visit conference website for more information.
The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association is accepting papers for the "Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom" session of the 2007 RMMLA Conference. Abstracts or papers are due by March 1. For additional information, visit RMMLA website.
Tahoe Women's Services (TWS), Truckee, CA Office is seeking a
Prevention Program Manager. TWS is looking for someone with management
level experience and a background in domestic violence and sexual assault,
who is knowledgeable in the field of education, and proficient in community
collaboration, program development and training. Excellent oral &
written skills required. Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years training
or teaching experience required. Fax resume & references to 775-298-0011,
or email to careers
@tahoewomenservices.org. For additional information about TWS,
visit their website.
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Kohli with subject heading “Bulletin.” You may
also call 753-1044.