Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is thrilled to have three undergraduate WGSS majors inducted as McNair scholars this year! These students are hardworking, dedicated, and optimistic about their futures in WGSS and the McNair scholars program. (McNair Scholars: Leila Kiandost, Rejani King, and Jessica Golden, depicted in… Continue reading…
Congratulations to UNCG WGS Alumna Hannah Dudley Shotwell . Her new book: Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America is coming out soon. Check it out! https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionizing-Womens-…/…/0813593026 Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare is the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. This movement arose out of women’s frustration, anger,… Continue reading…
Honoring the centrality of sexuality and queer studies to the field of women’s and gender studies, we are now the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
On Monday, October 21, Dr. Lisa Tetrault (Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University) spoke with us about the history and continuity of voter suppression in the United States. Her lecture was titled: “When Women Won the Right to Vote: An American Fiction.” Although the history of voting rights… Continue reading…
We had a wonderful turnout for the talk given by North Carolina native Dr. E Patrick Johnson, who spoke about his book, Black. Queer. Southern. Women. WGS would like to thank Dr. Tara Green, recipient of the Linda Arnold Carlisle Professorship, for her organizational efforts and the Departments of English… Continue reading…
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program welcomed Michael Robinson on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 as he facilitated a conversation on “The Mind of a Man: Finding Self in the Age of Toxic Masculinity.” Michael Robinson opened the conversation, sharing how most of his life had been a projection of who… Continue reading…
The Women’s and Gender Studies program would like to thank this year’s Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Award recipient, Dr. Yarneccia Dyson, for presenting her work on “Herstory: The Use of Womanism as an Epistemological Lens to Explore Sexual Health Risks and Lived Experiences of Women of Color in College”… Continue reading…
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program would like to thank everyone who attended our panel on “Feminism and Incarceration.” Approximately 80 people came to hear esteemed panelists Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean (Quinnipiac University), Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois, Chicago), and Dr. Lena Palacios (University of Minnesota). As Dr. Brown-Dean… Continue reading…
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program would like to thank everyone who came out to support “Race and the University: Immigration Now” on Thursday, November 15th, 2018. A special thanks goes to our guest speakers: Stephen J. Sills (Center for Housing and Community Studies, Director), Leilani Roughton (New Arrivals Institute,… Continue reading…
The WGS Program would like to thank everyone for attending the Reproductive Justice Panel on October 29. The panel featured scholars Dr. Cynthia Greenlee of Rewire News and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens from the City University of New York. Unfortunately, scheduled speaker Elena Rebecca Gutiérrez was unable to join us…. Continue reading…