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Launching Our New Major in Gender & Health

G Ryan and Jamie Thompson Receive 2018 Feminist Practice Award

Taylor Rovin, Sara Chadwick, Colleen Towler Win 2018 McGuigan Prizes

Congratulations, Class of 2018!

Spring Symposium Asks What It Means to Live a Feminist Life

Professor Abigail Stewart Strives for an Inclusive Academy

Professor Naomi André Evaluates Race in Opera

Rosario Ceballo Named Associate Dean of LSA

Eimeel Castillo Presents at Central American Congress of History

Professor Rosario Ceballo Discusses Research in Women's Health Magazine

What Can Your Gift to Women's and Gender Studies Do?

Professor Amal Fadlalla Discusses New Book and Nation Building in Sudan

Women's and Gender Studies to House New Social Class Minor

Symposium Explores Methods, Significance of Studying Black Girlhood

Women's and Gender Studies Names 2019 McGuigan Prize Winners

Amani Echols Wins 2019 Feminist Practice Award

Honors Symposium Showcases Undergraduate Theses

Congratulations, Class of 2019!

Spring Symposium Ends 2018-19 Academic Year

Late PhD Student's Research Published

Elizabeth Anderson Named MacArthur Fellow

Patricia Gurin Wins James S. Jackson Diversity Scholarship Award

New Faculty Profile: A Conversation with Yi-Li Wu

New Faculty Profile: A Conversation with Abigail Dumes

Women's and Gender Studies Announces 2020 McGuigan Prize Winners

Shaima Abdullah wins 2020 Feminist Practice Award

Women's and Gender Studies Alum in LSA Magazine: Criminal Record

Lane Hall Gallery's Winter/Spring Exhibition Goes Virtual

Women's and Gender Studies Awards Grants for Student Research on Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence

Combating Campus Harassment: Professors Cortina, Kirkland Bring Expertise to Nationwide Effort

New Year, New Name: Welcome to Women's and Gender Studies

Jasmine An Wins English Department's Heberle Prize

In Memoriam: Sonya Orleans Rose (1935-2020)

Listening to the Patients: Seda Saluk on Medical Surveillance and Vaccine Hesitancy

Isis Settles Wins 2021 Sarah Goddard Power Award

Women's and Gender Studies Announces 2021 McGuigan Prize Winners

Lunar Doula Collective Wins 2021 Feminist Practice Award

IRWG Awarded Major NIH Grant for Undergraduate Research Mentoring on HIV/AIDS

Gallery's First Exhibit in Two Years- Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine

Petra Kuppers Receives 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship

2023 Feminist Practice Award and Dorothy McGuigan Prizes announced!

2023 Undergraduate Honors Colloquium

Dr. Lisa Harris named Thurnau Professor

New Fall 2023 Lane Hall Exhibition

Lilia Cortina receives Gwendolyn Puryear Keita Award for Social Justice and the Welfare of Working People

Seda Saluk Published New Article!

Melynda Price receives grant to co-direct Monument Workshop at the University of Kentucky

Rovel Sequeira's New Article!

Abigail Dumes Mentioned in The New Yorker

Seda Saluk and Rovel Sequeira awarded Humanities Collaboratory 5X5 Incubator Grant

2024 Feminist Practice Award and Dorothy McGuigan Prizes announced!

2022 Undergraduate Honors Theses Presented

Gallery's First Exhibit in Two Years- Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine

Petra Kuppers Receives Praise for Gut Botany

2022 Undergraduate and Graduate McGuigan Prizes Announced

Lisa Harris Interviewed by NPR

Abby Dumes on Long Covid in the NYT

Dean Hubbs featured in LSA Magazine

Senior Jessica Wang receives the 2022 Feminist Practice Award; Senior Emma Theisen wins Honorable Mention

Jennifer Jones Wins 2024 Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education in Race & Ethnicity Instruction

Congratulations in Order for Charlotte Karem Albrecht’s Recent Major Accomplishments

Petra Kuppers Wins Three Major Awards for Her Career Work in Theatre and Dance

In CNN, Prof. Naomi André comments on the Metropolitan Opera's cessation of blackface makeup use in 'Otello'

Meghan Liroff, M.D. (2009), says her Women's Studies degree provided a framework to approach her emergency room patients with tolerance and acceptance

Prof. Holly Hughes reflects on the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling in the Huffington Post

Spotlight on Scott De Orio, doctoral candidate in History and Women's Studies, whose dissertation focuses on the history of sex offender law in the United States since the 1960s

Prof. Anna Kirkland weighs in on vaccines on National Public Radio

Professor Tiya Miles Discusses How to Talk to Your Kids About the Contributions of African American Women

Sports Management Prof. Ketra Armstrong comments on The University of Tennessee's decision to remove the prefix "Lady" from all but one of its women's sports teams

Students in Prof. Martha Jones’ African-American Women’s History course recently brought two rare photo albums to life. They belonged to Arabella Chapman (1859-1925)

Gender, Race and Nation minor and Art & Design student Meghal Janardan interviewed and photographed 30 women of color from the University of Michigan for her senior thesis project. You can see it online.

Prof. Lisa Kane Low is named Associate Dean for Practice and Professional Graduate Studies at the School of Nursing

Lita Brillman and Gabriele Koch Awarded McGuigan Prizes for Best Essays in Women's Studies

On National Public Radio Marketplace Morning Report, alumna Renee Gross interviews PhD candidate Rita Seabrook and others on who should pay for dates

Prof. Carol Jacoben and Attorney Lynn D'Orio's article on "Case Studies of the MI Women's Justice & Clemency Project" is published

Prof. Wang Zheng is interviewed about the detention of five Chinese feminist activists at the juncture of Beijing+20

Senior Emma Maniere receives the 2015 Feminist Practice Award

Feminist Practice Award for Undergraduates Deadline March 23, 2015

Five Chinese Feminists Held over International Women's Day Plans

Gender Perspectives in Puerto Rican Childhood Education

Lisa Kane Low President-Elect of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)

Professor Tiya Miles' Debut Novel Ties Black, Native-America History

Valerie Traub’s research inspires a lesbian-affirmative performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It

WGS Professor Robert Wyrod Named 2015 IRWG Junior Faculty Scholar

Anna Kirkland is honored for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education as a recipient of an Arthur F. Thurnau professorship

Two WGS Faculty Recently Awarded

Listen to 2013 graduate Renee Gross' podcast, The Feminist Fork

Prof. Sari van Anders receives the Frank A. Beach Young Investigator Award in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

The Detroit News reviews the current Lane Hall art show "Re-Imaging Gender"

Prof. Esther Newton's 1993 book, "Cherry Grove: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town" is reissued in paperback.

Prof. Robert Wyrod writes on "Ebola, Women and the Risk of Care," in the Gender & Society blog

Professor Elizabeth Armstrong is quoted in the New York Times about the residential college experience

The Michigan Daily talks with Prof. Dean Hubbs and others about the current state of popular music

Watch Prof. Martha Jones' lecture on the mid-19th century court case of Celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated sexual assaults. The lecture was recorded by C-SPAN in the Black Women in the U.S. course.

'Thinking Sex' Symposium to explore origins of sexuality studies

Music journalist Jewly Hight hosted a conversation with rising country/Americana artist Angaleena Presley (Pistol Annies) and our Professor Nadine Hubbs

Kathryn Holland, Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Lilia Cortina find that the military makes progress with sexual assualt training, but more can be done

Esther Newton is featured in ‘A Gay Haven on Fire Island’ in the NY Times

"Sexy Thoughts, Sexy Data," a profile of Professor Sari van Anders in The Science Magazine

Breanne Fahs, Psychology & WGS PHD alum and professor at Arizona State offers extra credit for defying gender norms on body hair. Read more Inside Higher Ed.

Women's Studies mourns the death of Professor Patsy Yaeger

Dr. Tim Johnson, Prof. of ObGyn and WGS, said the Michigan law requiring women to buy a separate health insurance rider for abortion coverage is having a chilling effect on doctors when treating patients

History/WGS PhD alum Rebekah E. Pite received a Social Sciences Book Prize for "Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Doña Petrona, Women, and Food"

Make Love Not War: Changing the Conversation on Abortion, History doctoral student Jacqueline Antonovich writes about the recent Lane Hall exhibit on the blog Nursing Clio

Professor Elizabeth Armstrong is quoted in a Forbes article, Hooking Up And Marriage: Luxury Goods For Educated Millennials

Social Work and WGS Professor Rosemary Sarri blogs about her visit to a community development project in the Philippines

LGBTQ minor Michael Schramm has a piece in the Michigan Daily, "Christianity's g(r)ay area"

Watch a video about Prof. Larry LaFountain's new book on trans performance and activism in Puerto Rico and in the U.S.

WDET talks with Prof. Maria Cotera about the new exhibit at El Museo del Norte in Detroit, Las Rebeldes - Stories of Strength and Struggle

Women's Studies alum Becky Lee was a contestant on 'Survivor' and used her winnings to start a nonprofit whose mission is to fight domestic violence. You can read about it in LSA Magazine.

Marina Haque and Emily Waples Receive McGuigan Awards for Best Essays in Women's Studies

Students for Choice Receives the 2014 Feminist Practice Award

Dr. Timothy R. B. Johnson in the Detroit Free Press, Why your doctor, not your boss, should make health care decisions

LSA Professor Anna Kirkland Says Federal Court Ruling Allowing Gay Marriage Trumps Michigan's Ban

Prof. Anna Kirkland was quoted in the Detroit News on the temporary suspension of gay marriages in Michigan

Professor Amal Hassan Fadlalla on "South Sudan: When the Wolf Cries Ethnicity" in Africa Up Close

Artist, researcher and activist Heather Ault is interviewed about her Lane Hall Exhibit “4,000 Years for Choice: A Graphic Guide to Reproductive Justice” on the Michigan Public Radio program Stateside

Meet Terri Conley: The Psychologist With an Alternative Theory of Hookup Culture, in NY Magazine

Listen to Prof. Abby Stewart on Michigan Radio discuss the underrepresentation of women in science and what can be done to change this

The UM student magazine What the F features Prof. Gayle Rubin

A piece in The New York Times on “Sex and Intimacy After the Baby Arrives” is based on the research of Professors Sari van Anders and Lisa Kane Low

Prof. Pam Smock comments in the Detroit Free Press on gender equity and the appointment of Mary Barra as GM CEO

Read about the stop violence against women event organized by students in WGS 240 Intro. to Women's Studies

Marilyn Zimmerwoman's exhibit, "So You Say You Want a Revolution: Sustainable Activism and Beloved Communities of Detroit" is in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space

Prof. Sari van Anders is interviewed about her study on the sexuality of partners of postpartum women

Read about Maria Cotera's project, "Chicana Por Mi Raza: Uncovering the Hidden History of Chicana Feminism"

An article on "Considerations of Gender in the Commutation Process for Incarcerated Women" by Carol Jacobsen and Lora Lempert is published in the journal Signs

Dr. Timothy Johnson writes in the Detroit Free Press on how abortion crackdown risks more lives

Elizabeth Armstrong is quoted in an Inside Higher Ed piece about 'hook-up culture' on college campuses.

"The NEA Four Revisited: Holly Hughes Shares Her Thoughts" on the Hyperallergic Blog

Nadine Naber is awarded a Global Challenges for a Third Century Initiative grant for her digital photo archive project, Women’s Human Rights in Egypt: Food, Safety and Political Participation

Amal Hassan Fadlalla receives Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

Julianne Halsey and Angela Pérez-Villa are the 2013 McGuigan Prize winners for best essays in Women's Studies

Read Women's Studies and History doctoral candidate Cookie Woolner's blog post on queer black women and marriage ceremonies in the 1920s-1970s

"Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the U.S." is in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space

Amy Navvab receives the Feminist Practice Award for her leadership in the U-M Open Housing Initiative

Leela Fernandes' book "Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power" is released

Department Chair Elizabeth Cole is honored with a Sarah Goddard Power Award

Marking a milestone, Women's Studies 40th anniversary video

Student project reports on the accessibility of the judicial bypass law for Florida minors

Watch Prof. Angela Dillard and PhD Candidate Khaliah Mangrum discuss the Lane Hall Exhibit Claiming Citizenship on Detroit Public Television's American Black Journal

Claiming Citizenship: African Americans and New Deal Photography is in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space

Elizabeth Cole writes in the APS Observer about two pioneers of feminist and black psychology

Terri Conley is cited in the New York Times Sunday Review piece, Darwin Was Wrong About Dating

Doing Neuroscience, Doing Feminism: An Interview with Professor Sari van Anders

Professor Terri Conley's research has challenged evolutionary psychology’s thesis that women are less interested in casual sex than men

Professor Tiya Miles is Searching for the Historical Truth in African and American Indian Relationships

Rachel Fentin wrote her honors thesis about the Hunger Games and the Giver, two dystopian young adult novels. It's covered in the LSA Magazine.

Child hunger expert Mariana Chilton's Shaw lecture is now available online and as a podcast

Gayle Rubin is awarded a Ruth Benedict Book Prize from the Association for Queer Anthropology

How mothers living in poverty are demanding economic justice was the topic of the Shaw lecture. Read about it in the University Record.

Nadine Naber's new book, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism, is released

The research by Terri Conley, Amy Moors, Jes Matsick, and Ali Ziegler on gender differences in sexuality is covered in Psychology Today

Congratulations to the winners of the McGuigan Prizes for best essays in Women's Studies

Watch Bothaina Kamel, candidate for the presidency of Egypt, deliver the Motorola lecture

2012 Undergraduate Honors Theses Abstracts

The Lane Hall Gallery hosts the SuperWomen exhibit, featuring photographs that celebrate the accomplishments, diversity, and beauty of female athletes

Tiya Miles discusses her work on the intersecting history of African Americans and Native Americans on the American Public Media radio program, <i>On Being</i>

A collection of Gayle Rubin's most influential essays is released

Holly Hughes’ recent solo show, “The Dog and Pony Show: Bring Your Own Pony,” has been nominated for a national GLAAD Media Award

Sarah Fenstermaker is appointed as Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies

Anna Kirkland writes in the New York Times on expanding legal safeguards to include weight

Trevor Hoppe has been conducting extensive interviews with local health department officials about how they have been applying state laws related to HIV

See the Ann Arbor Journal's coverage of the Lane Hall Exhibit Reception, "A Woman's Place is in the Struggle"

Terri Conley's research on gender and sexual behavior is in Jezebel

The Fall 2011 Women's Studies Newsletter is Online

<i>Sudan’s Secession and the Future Ahead</i>, A Conversation with Amal Hassan Fadlalla is in the <i>Journal of the International Institute</i>

Women's Studies and Psychology Ph.D. alum Bre Fahs' new book, <i>Performing Sex</i>, offers a provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in the U.S.

Carol Jacobsen is interviewed about her films on women incarcerated in the U.S. in the <i>Signs Online Journal: Films for the Feminist Classroom</i>

Congratulations to our joint doctoral program alumni on their sucessful job placements

In <i>Science Now</i>, Sari van Anders commented on a study that showed men with children have a decrease in testosterone

There has recently been a series of sexual assaults near the UM campus - learn more about the steps we can take to increase our personal and collective safety

AAUW Names Abigail J. Stewart 2011 Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Awardee

Amal Hassan Fadlalla and other scholars assess the future of Southern Sudan in a podcast from the Hammer Museum at UCLA

Carol Jacobsen talks with <i>LSA Magazine</i> about the Michigan Women's Justice and Clemency Project

Maria Cotera works to create a museum that will remember the thousands of Mexicans unjustly deported during the 1930s

Ph.D. Candidate and D-Funk Allstars roller derby team member Molly Hatcher is featured in <i>LSA Magazine</i>, "Don't Let the Fishnets Fool You"

Sarah Chapman and Zakiya Luna awarded McGuigan prizes for best essays in Women's Studies, Alex Cooperstock receives honorable mention

Ellen Eisenman's exhibit in Lane Hall, <i>we will not be silent</i>, is reviewed in AnnArbor.com

Read about Terri Conley's study of the varying motivations and attitudes that men and women have towards casual sex

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is cited in an article on Redefining Sudan

Nadine Naber and Philip Potter discuss the struggle against authoritarian rule in Egypt

Nadine Naber's article "Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egyptian Revolution" is in Jadaliyya.com

View David Halperin's Distinguished University Professorship lecture: "Are Homosexuals Still Sick?"

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is quoted in an article on Sudan's Beauty Revolution in Al-Ahram Weekly

Gayle Rubin's book, <i>Surveiller et jouir: Anthropologie politique du sexe</i> (Discipline and Pleasure: Political Anthropology of Sex) is published in French

New style of Michigan Women's Studies t-shirts in women’s fit and sizes

Spotlight on Graduate Coordinator Aimee Germain

The U-M Spectrum Center Celebrates Doin it for 40 Years with a year-long program of LGBT education and entertainment

The winter Lane Hall Exhibit, "we will not be silent, photographs by ellen eisenman," is up

Holly Hughes' piece <i>Let Them Eat Cake</i>, is reviewed in the Village Voice

<i>Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality</i>, by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland, is released

Esther Newton is honored at the American Anthropological Association with a symposium, <i>The Mother (Camp) of Us All</i>

The Brian Lehrer Show features Anna Kirkland and Jonathan Metzl discussing their new book, <i>Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality</i>

The Michigan Daily Reports on the panel, "The Politicized Voices of American-Muslim Women"

Shaw Lecturer Robin Givhan, Fashion Editor of the Washington Post, talks about Fashion, Power, and Politics

<i>Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing</i> by Adela Pinch, is released

Access to the Judicial Bypass Option in Michigan: Is There Really an Option for Minors?

Elizabeth Cole and Nadine Hubbs comment on "The End of Tenure" in a letter to the New York Times

U-M Women's Studies researchers Leskinen, Cortina, and Kabat find that gender harassment is just as distressing for women as sexual advances in the workplace

Timothy R.B. Johnson and Judy Norsigian Write About the High Cost of Caesarean Births in the <i>Boston Globe</i>

Jonathan Metzl discusses his book <i>The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease</i> on the Australian National Radio Program, All In The Mind

Women's Studies Alum Corrie Wallace, Director of the Parent Center for Immigrant and Refugee Families, is Interviewed on Chicago Public Radio

Women's Studies Faculty David Caron and Holly Hughes are Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Lynn Verduzco Baker and Jamie Budnick Receive McGuigan Prizes for Best Essays in Women's Studies, Laura Winnick Receives Honorable Mention

<i>Gay Shame</i> by David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, is released

Jonathan Metzl is featured in a <i>Science Daily</i> article about a study that found black men are overdiagnosed with schizophrenia more than any other group

Susan Siegfried's book <i>Ingres: Painting Reimagined</i>, is released

A Tribute to Retiring Professor of Art and Women's Studies, Joanne Leonard

Professor Jonathan Metzl Writes About His Direct Experience With China's Response to the H1N1 Virus in the <i>Kansas City Star</i> and the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>

<i>Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters</i> by Dena Goodman, is released

On Michigan Radio, Dr. Lisa Harris discusses what the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion restrictions in Texas could mean for Michigan

Dr. Lisa Harris discusses Supreme Court ruling on Texas abortion restrictions

Archived Events

2015 Vivian R. Shaw Lecture with Piper Kermann. "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison"

Incarcerated Women: A Conversation about Realities

The 25th Anniversary Symposium, Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom "Fragility of Our Freedoms"

The Institutional Life of Intersectionality, or Notes on Feminist Fatigue

Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women

Carceral Visions: The Prison as Image/Object/Limit Symposium

Prison Obscura Exhibition Opening & Reception

Spring Symposium-RSVP Required

German Studies Colloquium. Gender and the Imaginary of Revolution in German, 1918-19

ORIENTations. Eng Beng-Lim

Twin Trouble: The Long History of Simian Actors from Blind Gew to Snooky the Humanzee.

Honors Colloquium

Presumptions, Realities, and Strategies: Women of Color Faculty and the University Classroom

Similarities in Self-Categorization Dynamics for Transgender Spectrum and Cisgender Adults

Women in Hip-Hop: "From MC Lyte to Iggy Azalea, How did we end up here?"

Feminism and Community Psychology

Facilitated Conference: New Articulations / New Translations: Feminist Research Activism

Book Launch of "The Cherokee Rose" by Tiya Miles

Saving Jeannace June Freeman: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of Homophobia in Oregon, 1961-1964

Black Feminist Think Tank: A Symposium

Pizza with Professors and Advisors

Gender Research Across the Disciplines

ORIENTations. Mimi Thi Nguyen

$tart $mart Negotiation Workshop

Seminar in honor of Patsy Yaeger

Taking Back the X, Bringing Back the Love

RESCHEDULED ORIENTations. "Bottomhood Is Powerful"

Inaugural William Monroe Trotter Lecture

Gender: New Works, New Questions, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music by Nadine Hubbs

STS-Related. Beyond Life/Not Life: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation Practices and Ethics, Interspecies Thinking, and the New Materialisms

"A Deeper Black: Race in America." Motorola Lecture

Lane Hall Exhibit Opening: "Re-Imaging Gender," a juried art show

"The Michigan Difference: Going to Mississippi... If I Don't, Who Will?" The Installation of Dr. Lisa Harris as the F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Professor of Reproductive Health

Interactivity in Feminist Classrooms: Panel & Discussion.

Exiting the Ivory Tower Before and After Graduation: Attrition and Non-Faculty Careers Among Diverse Students

Animal Acts: Performing Species Today, edited by Holly Hughes and Una Chaudhuri

Optimizing your Summer Internship Opportunities

Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader

Co-sponsored Event: Feminist Science Studies. HPV and the Expanding Sexual Politics of Cancer Prevention

Feminists Theorize the Post-Liberalization State

Disciplinary Disconnects: Gender, Addictions, and Making a Difference

Thirty Years of "Thinking Sex"

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: Why We Need a Women's Economic Agenda

Caught in the Cross-Publics of the "Muslimwoman"

Opening of the Lane Hall Exhibit Salamander by the Olimpias Disability Culture Collective

Summer term classes begin June 26

Spring term classes begin May 6

Honors Colloquium

Race, Gender & Hip Hop: An Open Discussion

What is Sex For?

Sex, Race, and Sciences of Human Behavior

Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate and My Other Self

Scandal in Suburbia: Lesbian Wives, or the Hidden Threat to the Nuclear Family in Postwar America, brownbag lunch

What You Can DO with a Social Science Degree

POSTPONED DUE TO FLOODING: Detroit Women Speak, film event in Detroit

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality

Women's Studies in Real Life: Using Women's Studies and Feminist Practice in your Career

After Tiller - A documentary about the physicians in America who offer late-term abortions following the 2009 assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas

POSTPONED--Women's Studies in Real Life: Using Women’s and Gender Studies & Feminist Practice in your Career

MLK Symposium event: The War on Poverty: A Retrospective

The War on Poverty: A Retrospective

4,000 Years for Choice: Changing Culture, Creating History, and Honoring Stories of Reproductive Freedom

Feminist Scholars Engaging the Public: A Panel Discussion

Detroit Women Speak: A Community Film on Race, Environmental Justice, Leadership & Gender in Detroit

Don’t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back

Building a Green Economy: Indigenous Strategies for a Sustainable Future

Circles and Sensibilities: Music by and for Virgil Thomson

Reception for the Ukrainian Women's Handiwork exhibit in the Lane Hall glass cases

Vivian R. Shaw Lecture, Equal Work, Equal Pay

Opening reception for the Marilyn Zimmerwoman photography exhibit, "So You Say You Want a Revolution: Sustainable Activism and Beloved Communities of Detroit"

Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader

Justice Before Charity: Everyone Has the Right to Eat

Undergraduate Honors Colloquium and McGuigan Prize Presentation

Feminist Science: "The Concept of "Race" in the Age of Genomics"

Women's Leadership to End the Korean War

Birthing Reproductive Justice: 150 Years of Images and Ideas

Women's Studies Senior Class Presents: FEMFEST!

"The turf, the path, the gravel": Reflections on the Academic Life in Honor of Anne Herrmann

Feminist Finance Symposium

Mentoring Around Differences, Joint Women's Studies and Psychology Brown Bag

Abortion and the Global Battle for Gender Equality

Motorola Lecture, Building New Majorities: Achieving Racial and Gender Equity in Life and Politics

"Building New Majorities: Achieving Racial and Gender Equity in Life and Politics," 2013 Motorola Lecture by Rinku Sen

Performing the Posthuman: Engendering Animals

"The New Sterilization: Incarceration as Population Policy in the United States," lecture and opening reception for the multimedia exhibition, Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States

The New Sterilization

Jobs Beyond the Ivory Tower

Lane Hall Exhibit: Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States

The March of Humanitarianism: "Clooneyal" Visibilites and the Fragmentation of the Sudan

Feminist Science: "Community Ecologies: Invasive Species and Interdisciplinary Crossings"

Community Ecologies: Invasive Species & Interdisciplinary Crossings

Sexual satisfaction in young adults: Challenges in diverse definition and measurement of satisfying sex

"Engaging Diversity: More Important Than Ever," Nancy Cantor Distinguished Lectureship on Intellectual Diversity

Nikky Finney Reading

Lila Miller Collegiate Professorship in History and Women's Studies Inaugural Lecture: "Episodes in the History of Intellectual Sociability: From the French Enlightenment to the University of Michigan"

The Alumni Association: What they can do for you now!

Career and Change Agent Pathways for Women's and Gender Studies Graduates: Trends and Lessons Learned from a Global Database of Women's and Gender Studies Graduates (1995-2010)

Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power

Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales

Performance: "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales"

Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream

"New Deal Visualities: Figures of Difference in Photographic Claims to Citizenship," exhibit opening and panel discussion

IRWG Feminist Science Studies 2012: "Gestating Gender"

IRWG Feminist Science Studies 2012: "Science and secularism: Feminist issues"

Rackham Centennial Lecture, "On 'Liberated Sex' and Other Myths"

The Archivist Behind the Curtain: Tips for Researchers Approaching the Archive

The Chicana por mi Raza Digital Humanities Project

Psychology and WGS Brownbag, "Gender Differences in Fantasy: Dissertation Brainstorming Workshop"

Sex & Justice Conference

IRWG Feminist Science Studies 2012: "Queer Science"

Women's Studies 40th Anniversary Celebration

Women's Studies 40th Anniversary Celebration: Shaw Lecture, Dr. Mariana Chilton, Witnesses to Hunger: How Mothers Living in Poverty are Demanding Economic Justice

Conference: Title IX at Forty: Progress and Promise—Equity for All

"Smashing the Masher: The Response to Street Harassment in Progressive Era America" a Lecture by Estelle Freedman

Women's Studies Undergraduate Honors Colloquium

Reception to celebrate the publication of Naomi André's new book, <i>Blackness in Opera</i>

The Sexual Harassment of Feminist Women, Psychology and Women's Studies Brownbag

<i>Newspaper Diary: Trompe l’Oeil Photographs</i><br>By Joanne Leonard

Global Feminism Revisited

Feminist Interventions in the Sciences and in Epistemology: Significant Parallels

Economic, Cultural, and Social Mechanisms Driving Women's HIV Risk: The Case of Kenya

Women’s property rights abuses in Nyanza and Western Provinces, Kenya: An examination of this critical structural driver of HIV risks

A Tale of Two Sisters: Feminist Interventions in Borderlands History

Can the Revolution Liberate Women, Too? 2012 Motorola Lecture on Gender and the Media

The documentary film, <i>Miss Representation</i>

Islam, Women Activists, and the Agency of Interpretation

The Congress on Research in Dance 2012 Special Topics Conference: Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance

Stigma in Abortion and Abortion Work: Stories from the Field

Tales of the Evolution of Female Orgasm and Adaptationist and Sexist Biases in Research

The Emergence of Feminism in the Mizrahi Ashkenazi Discourse

The Women in Math Club presents, "Why Are Manholes Round?"

Revisioning the Life of Coretta Scott King

The Vulva Dialogues: Anthropology, Medicine, and the Female Genital Body

Critical Sexuality Methods: Feminist Perspectives on Knowledge Production & Health

"Between the Lines of Michigan Senate Bill 13: A Discussion on the Implications of a Personhood Amendment"

Attached to Monogamy?: Attachment Styles and Openness to Consensual Non-monogamous Relationships

Feminism, Human Rights, and War: The Case of Lebanon, 2006 to the Arab Spring

DAAS Women's film series, <i>Beloved</i>

International Institute Symposium on <i>New Media/Social Change: Implications for Area Studies</i>

PS&C Brown Bag Series, “Latino/a Depression and Smoking: An Analysis Through the Lenses of Culture, Gender, and Ethnicity”

Mistinguette Smith, Black/Land Project

Public reception for the Lane Hall Exhibit, <i>A Woman's Place is in the Struggle: Gender, Race, and Nation, 1975-1995</i>

Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints Artist Conversation and Dialogue with Chen Limin

Agnes Goes to Prison: Transgender Inmates, "Clocking", and the Olympics of Gender Authority

Teach-In on Sexual Assault: Tools for Safety, Knowledge for Change

The Women's Studies Department Presents "Careers in Women's Health"

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