Dr. Elaine Zelley and Dr. Katie Dunleavy (dunleavy@lasalle.edu) of La Salle University are collecting survey data regarding female friendships and competition. If you are between the ages of 25-40, and a woman, please consider participating in this anonymous study at
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/
Laurel B. Watson, watsonlb@umkc.edu, assistant professor of counseling psychology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, is seeking participants for a study regarding women’s experiences with anger. Participants will be interviewed, about 45 minutes to one hour in duration; it may be via telephone or in person. For your participation, a $10 donation will be made to the National Organization for Women.
This study has been approved by University of Missouri, Kansas City’s Institutional Review Board. If you have any concerns about your rights as a participant please call 816-235-5927.
Visual representations of women in the Cold War did important socio-cultural and political work, both domestically and on the international stage. The image of the American housewife contributed to the visual lexicon of a family- and consumer-oriented 1950s lifestyle, a reflection of staged privacy put on display for the world to see. In Europe, where post-war American military and free trade alliances sought to keep Communist tyranny in check, images of women were deployed by both sides, either as markers of capitalist glamor of socialist worker aesthetics.
Click here for an interactive media project with contributions by Ellen W. Gorsevski, Katherine Hampsten, and Elisabeth Ross.
Students in Stefka Hristova’s digital media class at Michigan Tech produced the collage of images and text.
……………………..peace……………..diplomacy……………..war………………domesticity……………..
by Amani Hamdan, University of Ottawa
As teachers, we acknowledge that “schools are sites of cultural politics organized through modes of semiotic production… thought of in this way, schools are a set of social, textual and visual practices intended to provoke the production of meanings and desire that affect people’s sense of their future identities and possibilities” (Roger, 1992, p. 40). Thus, traditional schools’ ideologies, including those of Wellesley College in Mona Lisa Smile concerning women’s role in society, affect female students’ sense of their future identities and possibilities as well as women teachers’ view of their own role in affecting social change. Knowing the struggle of feminist teachers in literature throughout the past several decades teaches us to appreciate the current state of affairs and prepare strategies for the future. Using films such as Mona Lisa Smile in classrooms in higher education allows for reflection on the role of women in education and the personal cost paid by many women. Though the film is set in a 1950s America, it serves as a particularly powerful text with Arab students in my classes in higher education
