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• Pregnancy bias — in a women’s studies class

  
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  A pregnant college student asked if she could make up tests or assignments missed due to medical appointments or labor. Her women’s studies professor said no. A dean told her to drop the class. Stephanie Stewart sued City University of New York for  pregnancy discrimination , winning back her scholarship, repayment ...
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• Who Pays the Price for the College Party Scene?

  
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  After a five-year study of a flagship Midwestern public university, sociologists Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton found that the social and academic infrastructure of the school seemed to prioritize a particular type of affluent, socially oriented student. A “party pathway”—built around an implicit ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book review: Anne Frank Unbound

  
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  " Anne Frank Unbound ...  tell[s] us a great deal about the myriad uses to which one individual story has been and can be put. ... In addition to these ethical and political questions, the essays engage productively with the aesthetic choices made by writers, visual artists, filmmakers, performance artists, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Womens Studies Not Worth the Cost

  
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  The Governor of North Carolina, Patrick McCrory, is an honest man. He said something very important on a national radio program a few weeks ago. He said he would push legislation to base funding for the states universities on whether college students get jobs after graduation rather than on enrollment. One of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Weeks New Books: Ellis Island Nation, Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power, Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions, How Rivalries End, and More

  
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  Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century Robert L. Fleegler 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4509-7 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Haney Foundation Series...
  3 weeks ago

• Bonnie Morris to give reading at Binghamton University

  
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  Author Bonnie Morris will return to her alma mater Binghamton University to discuss  Revenge of the Womens Studies Professor . Morriss talk, "Radical Visions, Feminist Words: Recalling Binghamtons Womens History Program in the 1980s," will take place May 1 at 7 p.m. She will also sign copies of her book at the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Honoring Difference: Lessons in Embracing & Loving Yourself

  
  Oh Golly, Holly! — Authority: 113
  When I was a freshman in high school, I was diagnosed with a disability that’s “traditionally” tied to middle-aged or elderly women: fibromyalgia. He thought for a few minutes. I imagine it was hard to put aside all his history with me – I’d been ill for much of my time as a child, suffering from other ...
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• An Employers Guide to Equal Pay

  
  NYPL Blogs — Authority: 500
  In addressing the Equal Pay Gap, the Womens Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor recently released two guides on Equal Pay, A guide to Womens Equal Pay Rights and An Employers Guide to Equal Pay. These guides are also published in four additional languages: Spanish , Chinese , Vietnamese and French , to meet ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lecture on Egyptian women and the paradox of the Arab spring presented April 24

  
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  BOONE—Dr. Birsen Bulmus, assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Appalachian State University, will lecture on Egyptian women and the paradox of the Arab spring. Her talk begins at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in Plemmons Student Union’s Price Lake Room. Pizza and drinks will be provided courtesy ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Guide to Womens Equal Pay Rights

  
  NYPL Blogs — Authority: 500
  The Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor recently released two guides on Equal Pay, A Guide to Women’s Equal Pay Rights and An Employer’s Guide to Equal Pay. These guides are also published in four additional languages: Spanish , Chinese , Vietnamese and French , to meet the diverse needs of ...
  4 weeks ago

• This Weeks New Books: Citizenship and the Origins of Womens History in the United States and More

  
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  Citizenship and the Origins of Womens History in the United States Teresa Anne Murphy 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4489-2 | $42.50 | £28.00 A volume in the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism series Citizenship and...
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• Open Letter to New Hampshire Representative Peter Hansen

  
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  Dear Representative Hansen, As one of the women who make up more than half of the voting constituency of the United States of America, as an educator, and as a daughter, wife, and mother, I am writing to express my outrage over the thoughtless, insensitive, crass, and frankly, blatantly misogynist remarks you made to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Blog Tour: Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

  
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  Bio/Memoir - Womens Studies Date Published:  4/17/2011 Anya Michaels is having the time of her life. She has the man of her dreams by her side. She has graduated at the top of her class. She has the job others were lining up for. Between late night drinks at her favourite bar and fancy dinners at ...
  5 weeks ago

• Stop Using the Word “Seminal”

  
  Unwed Human Female — Authority: 124
  Ages ago, when I was applying to graduate school, I had a new professor and recent doctoral graduate look over the paper I was using as my writing sample. She only had one comment: “You need to not use the word ‘seminal’ … ever preferably, but especially when you’re discussing women.” At the time I had ...
  5 weeks ago

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