GWSS Departmental Newsletter 3/9/18

A Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Spring Break Update

Events

1. April 14- Global Health Day 
2. No-Charge Tax Preparation
3. Asian-American Women, Fetishization, and #MeToo.  
4. ICGC Event Schedule 
5. Indigenous Women of Color Student Summit 
6. International Women's Day with FAB 
7. Feminism Beyond Gender Panel 
8. International Women's Day- Promoting Women of African Descent 
9. Women of Color in STEM Networking Event 
10. Feminist Friday- Decolonizing Sex Positivity 
11. Interrogating Anti-Black Racism and Disablement
12. Campus ERA day--Screening of "50/50"
13. Juxtaposition Arts Exhibition-A Photography Exhibit by Celestia Morgan

Call for Papers/Applications

1. Polish Journal of Aesthetics Call for Proposals 
2. ICI Proposals Deadline Extension 

Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. Internship Position for Undergrad/Graduate Students
2. Field Staff- Member Outreach Positions for the TPT/PBS Campaign
3. Schochet Fellowship 
4. National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
5. National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships
6. Open Society Fellowships
7. Scholars Strategy Network 2018-2020 Postdoctoral Fellowships (new funding)
8. Women’s Philanthropy Institute Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Miscellaneous 

1. Petition- UMN Divest 
2. Submission Deadline for Teaching Innovation Grants, 3/9 
3. Women's History Month

                                                                                                       

Events

1. April 14- Global Health Day The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility is accepting student abstracts and requests for table space at Global Health Day. The University-wide event includes student presentations, a U of M Global Health Showcase, and a Global Health Resource Corner. 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Coffman Union, Twin Cities.
2. No-Charge Tax Preparation The Volunteer Tax Assistance Program (VTAP), a student-run service organization, prepares tax returns at no charge for University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and students who have unadjusted gross income of less than $54,000. The program is fast, safe, and IRS certified. Learn more and schedule an appointment at Vtap.org >
3. Asian-American Women, Fetishization, and #MeToo.  I'm sure you've heard of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements. But why are Asian American women often invisible in these discussions? For some, "a fear of retribution hinders Asian-American women from exposing abusers in an industry that’s been historically hostile to them."
   This Women's History Month, start conversations about Asian American women and #MeToo.Delve into gender and race with PBS documentary Seeking Asian Female, an award-winning film that follows an older white man with an "Asian fetish" as he tries to start a relationship with a real Chinese woman. It dives head first into the objectification of Asian women through a challenging and thoroughly entertaining story.

   Seeking Asian Female is available to be streamed on Kanopy, and for purchase as a DVD or streaming license via New Day Films.
4. ICGC Event Schedule- Link here for the Spring 2018 Schedule.
5. Indigenous Women of Color Student Summit March 24, 2018 | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Carlson School of Management
   This World is Ours to Build, co-hosted by the Women's Center and Carlson School of Management. The summit is by and for indigenous women and women of color students to learn from each other, network, and explore leadership, personal, and professional development. Find more information on the summit. Register for Indigenous Women & Women of Color Student Summit
6. International Women's Day with FAB Come celebrate International Women's Day with the Feminist Ambassador Brigade in partnership with the Women's Center on March 8th from 12-2pm in Appleby Hall room 65.
   
   Visitors can add a message to the collective "Why Should Women Be Appreciated?" board, engage in thoughtful discussion, pick up some appreciative goodies made by FAB members, and get their photo taken at our photo booth. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome!
   
   
7. Feminism Beyond Gender Panel Wednesday, March 7, 6:30-8:00 pm
   Moos Tower, Room 2-520
   As part of their #FeminismBeyondGender campaign in celebration of International Women's Day, join Women for Political Change for a panel discussion with women and femmes challenging the status quo in their fields. Panelists include: Angela Conley For Hennepin County Commissioner 4th District, Dr. Jessica Lopez Lyman, interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar, Ashley Fairbanks, an Anishinaabe artist, organizer, and digital strategist, Paula Overby, transgender candidate for the US Senate seeking the endorsement of the Green Party, Uyenthi Tran Myhre, Assistant Director of the University of Minnesota Women's Center.
8. International Women's Day- Promoting Women of African Descent Thursday, March 8, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
   Register here
   Join the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy for this daylong event that will address all aspects of lives of women of African descent, featuring a keynote address by Linda Thomas-Greenfield and panels on economics, health, and other areas. Women's Center Director Anitra Cottledge will be part of a panel on Black and Afro-diasporic Female Perspectives on Social and Economic Justice at 1:30 pm.
9. Women of Color in STEM Networking Event Tuesday, March 27, 5:00-7:00 pm
   101 Walter Library
   RSVP: z.umn.edu/rsvpstemwoc
   Come meet and network with women of color from a variety of STEM professions and a number of companies. Use this opportunity to gain insight about their experience and pathways to their current positions. Co-hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Women’s Center, College of Science and Engineering WISE Initiative, and North Star STEM Alliance.
10. Feminist Friday- Decolonizing Sex Positivity Developed by Nafeesa Dawoodbhoy and presented by The Smitten Kitten, this workshop offers a challenge to white-dominated perspectives on sex positivity, and engages anyone seeking to expand and complicate their understanding of sex positivity. What are ways that people with intersecting identities, especially people of color, can stay true to their whole selves and honor the complexities of all their identities?
11. Interrogating Anti-Black Racism and Disablement
    The symposium will be held on April 12th (evening) and April 13th (day time) at the University of Minnesota Recreation and Wellness Center on the East Bank campus. The event is free and open to the public.
    
    
12. Campus ERA Day--Screening of "50/50" My name is Ruth Wollman, and I am writing to invite the University of Minnesota to participate in our 2018 Campus ERA Day. I am reaching out on behalf of a cohort of students participating in the Grove Fellowship at Hunter College, led by Jessica Neuwirth. Together with the ERA Coalition, we aim to spread awareness of and gain support for the revitalized push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.

    In 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment (or ERA) was introduced in Congress to ensure that women were equal under the law and prevent sex-based discrimination. Almost one hundred years later, the United States Constitution still does not guarantee equal rights for women! To accelerate the pace of change, we started Campus ERA Day last year in 2017. To learn more and to help make this happen: www.eracoalition.org

    Last year, we screened Kamala Lopez’s film “Equal Means Equal”and hosted a live question and answer panel, which featured Gloria Steinem, Patricia Arquette, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Betty Dukes, and Carol Jenkins. It was live-streamed from Hunter College, with questions from each campus sent in via Twitter and email.

    This year, we will be screening the short film “50/50” and partnering with 50/50 Day. We hope you’ll be able to join us on April 26, 2018! Our panel from last year can be streamed at https://livestream.com/roosevelthouse/equal-means-equal-panel, and our Facebook and Twitter pages can be found at https://www.facebook.com/campusERAday/ and https://twitter.com/campuseraday.

    We would love to have University of Minnesota involved with our event! If you are interested, please reach out to grovefellows@eracoalition.org with the best ways to contact you so we can be in touch. Thanks so much for your time, and looking forward to hearing from you!

13. Juxtaposition Arts Exhibition-A Photography Exhibit by Celestia Morgan
    
    
    
    “The sky is the limit to what you can have,” and in the sky, there are no borders. 
    
    Join us for the next gallery opening at Juxtaposition Arts. Celestia Morgan’s work explores the history of racially-based housing discrimination exemplified in Birmingham, Alabama with the appropriation of mapping and the mediating lens of photography. The exhibit will be up from March 15th—April 21.
    
    The residue of redlining is both visible and palpable and continues to haunt black neighborhoods both locally and nationally. While the work in Morgan’s show looks directly at Birmingham, redlining, the practice of refusing economic services to a community deemed financially risky due to race was practiced in cities across the entire United States, including Minneapolis.
    
    Morgan visually documents housing discrimination through the depression-era Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) security map, which categorizes neighborhoods from best to hazardous. The HOLC map of 1930 and current GPS mapping systems influence the geometric outlines in this body of work. These are beyond just walls or borders but birthmarks in the land, systematically imposed by society. This brings to question who gets to draw the line and dictate who gets to live where?

Call for Papers/Applications

1. Polish Journal of Aesthetics Call for Proposals We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to special issue of 'The Polish Journal of Aesthetics' - ' The Affective Aesthetics of The Body in Pain' edited by Luz Mar González-Arias (University of Oviedo, Spain), Monika Glosowitz (University of Silesia, Poland) and Miłosz Markiewicz (University of Silesia, Poland)
   
   Submission Deadline: July 15, 2018
   
   The pivotal category of affective aesthetics allows for analyses of literary texts and visual art conjoined with an important set of questions about the national, social, familial and sexual dimensions of embodiment. Affects — through artworks — function as forces which enable subjects to move and to be moved and, therefore, have the capacity to transform both individual and collective subjectivities. Physical pain — in all its degrees of intensity — is a constant presence in human life. However, it can be argued that only recently has it started to attract sustained critical attention. Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill (1926) is a precursor of what is now considered a turn to illness: Elaine Scarry, Susan Sontag, Leslie Jamison, Audre Lorde and Johanna Hedva are among the many critics and theorists who have worked on what it means to inhabit a dysfunctional and/or ill body. We might even contend that there is a tendency across cultures and geographies to inscribe the body in pain into the artistic text in order to call for active interaction with the readership/audience. Such interaction would resist a mere aesthetic contemplation of the object of the artwork (namely, the body in pain) and instead inspire empathic and ethical engagements as well as social interventions.
   
   In this special volume of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics we would like to explore—from a multiplicity of perspectives, cultural and historical contexts—the ways in which artistic projects shape distinct affective states of experiencing pain and illness. The concept of pain is here extended beyond physical distress to also embrace illnesses that may not have an associated sensation of bodily discomfort. Far from considering “the body in pain” as a unified category, we start from the idea that each illness, each pathology and each painful body part is the result of individual experience as much as of socially constructed notions of what it means to be in pain or to experience illness. Therefore, the collective and political potential of pain interests us as much as its phenomenology as a personal and individual experience.
   
   We invite articles, essays, artwork and fiction related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
   - Aesthetics and Medical Humanities — alliances and/or incompatibilities
   - The semiotics of pain
   - Ethical responsibilities in representing pain
   - Pain as more than lack — beyond negative hermeneutics
   - Gendered illnesses, gendered pains
   - The racial factors of pain
   - Pain and violence against women
   - Feminisms and solidarity among vulnerable subjects, ethics of care, affective labour
   - The politics of sickness: definition of normality versus deviation
   - Chronic, visible and invisible pains
   - Narratives of pain and illness
   
   
   

   All Authors interested in contributing to this issue of 'The Polish Journal of Aesthetics', planned for publication in December 2018, are kindly requested to send full papers by submission page at journal's website: http://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/ , by July 15, 2018.
   
   

   We strongly urge all Authors to read the instructions (‘For Authors’) before the submission.

   
   

   The Polish Journal of Aesthetics is a philosophical-aesthetic quarterly published periodical issued by Institute of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. It is addressed to a wide circle of philosophers, aestheticians, theoreticians and historians of art and artistic environment. Scientific interests include general and detailed philosophical-aesthetic issues of different fields of art, problems of theory and art history, artistic issues.

   
   

   Welcome to visit our website at: http://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/

   See CFP in the attached file.

   Please do not hesitate to contact us via email: pjaestheticsuj@gmail.com
2. ICI Proposals Deadline Extension Issues in Critical Investigation has extended our deadline for proposals for our upcoming Biennial until Friday, March 16th.
   
   
   
   
   The 4th ICI Biennial:
   The Environment, the Anthropocene, and the African Diaspora
   October 4^th-7^th, 2018 at Vanderbilt University
   ICI was created by Dr. Hortense Spillers in 2007 to facilitate mentorship between junior and senior scholars in the general field of Africana studies.  In its ten years of existence, ICI has conducted three book competitions and sponsored three biennial symposia, all carried out here at Vanderbilt. The point of the project is to locate and reward innovative work in the fields that converge on the studies of African Diasporic societies and to bring together as many of those scholars as possible, every other year, in celebration and critical inquiry. 
    Please join ICI on the Vanderbilt campus next October for our upcoming Biennial Symposium. Our opening reception will be on Thursday, October 4^th, 2018.  We will feature two exciting talks over the course of the weekend: keynotes by Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) and Professor Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersand), as well as a panel discussion featuring distinguished speakers (Professors Thadious Davis, Margo Crawford, Rizvana Bradley, and Alexander Weheliye; moderated by Professor Tracy Sharpley-Whiting) to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Hortense J. Spillers' influential essay, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book."
   
   
   We invite scholars to submit paper and panel proposals (200-300 words) on topics relating to the environment and the African Diaspora by March 16, 2018.
   
   Please send these proposals to ici@vanderbilt.edu.

Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities

1. Internship Position for Undergrad/Graduate Students Link to Position Description here.
   
   
2. Field Staff- Member Outreach Positions for the TPT/PBS Campaign Donor Development Strategies, LLC, is a national fundraising firm that partners with non-profit public media outlets across the United States. We currently partner with almost a dozen stations across the country.
   Here in the Twin Cities, we’ve partnered with Twin Cities PBS (TPT), the metro area’s local public television station. Over the past 5 years, we’ve raised over 2 million dollars for the station. We’re working now to grow our team and do even more.

   JOB DESCRIPTION: 

   Our canvassers visit with community members across the Twin Cities, identify folks who support TPT, and sign up those supporters as new members for the station—all the while gathering essential program and demographic data to enrich our understanding of the TPT audience. Our comprehensive paid training program will provide you the necessary skills to be successful in the field. No previous fundraising or canvassing experience is required.
   
   For those with a background in fundraising, canvassing, or community outreach, we are looking to fill leadership positions in our office in the form of field managers. FMs are an integral part of the office leadership team, typically leading crews of three-to-five staff members every day, training new hires, and working closely with the directing team to bolster the overall success of our campaign.
   
   Staff members are encouraged to inquire about additional leadership opportunities such as cross-training in newly launched offices across the country or running your own campaign as a canvass director.

   CANDIDATES SHOULD BE:                                      FIELD MANAGER CANDIDATES SHOULD BE:

   • Skilled communicators.                                     • Motivated to help our project grow.
   • Enthusiastic about public media.                       • Passionate about motivating others.
   • Self-motivated and goal-orientated.                 • Highly responsible and detail-oriented.
   • People who want to make a difference.           • Experienced fundraisers/activists.

   
   

   COMPENSATION:

          Canvasser base pay is $11.00/hour, plus weekly fundraising bonuses.
   Field Manager base pay is $14.00/hour, plus weekly fundraising bonuses.Our staff averages $16.00/hour.Have a car? We provide a generous mileage reimbursement! Earn up to $200 extra per week!

   
   

   BENEFITS: We offer full health, vision, and dental insurance after sixty days, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO). Employees also have the opportunity to enroll in a 401(k) retirement plan featuring an automatic employer contribution.

   
   

   TO APPLY: Email careers.tpt@donordevo.com, call (651) 229-1376, or fill out our online application directly at http://bit.ly/2m2eeDz and one of our directors will contact you about setting up an interview.

   
   

   
   
3. Schochet Fellowship The Steven J. Schochet Endowment is now accepting applications for the Schochet Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Queer, Trans and Sexuality Studies. The application is open to all University of Minnesota doctoral candidates who have reached candidacy by the end of Spring 2018. 
   
   The Schochet Interdisciplinary Dissertation Fellowship in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies provides $22,000 to a PhD Candidate who is pursuing research in the areas of queer, trans, and sexuality studies. This dissertation fellowship is forone ABD student during the 2018-2019 academic year. Applications for this fellowship are sought from persons of diverse backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented and marginalized communities.
    
    Click here for application
   
   Applications due: March 15, 2018. 
4. National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be eligible for this special opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be essential to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the nature of the research and the topics being addressed demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Successful projects will likely incorporate visual, audio, and/or other multimedia materials or flexible reading pathways that could not be included in traditionally published books.
   
   Deadline: April 11, 2018 (for projects beginning January 2019)
   Website: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/neh-mellon-fellowships-digital-publication 
5. National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships The National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency in Washington, D.C., administers a fellowships program that provides financial support for individuals who wish to pursue scholarly research projects in the humanities. Projects should involve advanced research that is of value to scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities.
   Deadline: April 11, 2018 (for projects beginning January 2019)
   Website: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships  
   
   
6. Open Society Fellowships The Open Society Fellowship supports individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. The fellowship funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world.
   Citizenship: Unrestricted
   Deadline: July 15, 2018
   Website: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/open-society-fellowship   
   
   
7. Scholars Strategy Network 2018-2020 Postdoctoral Fellowships (new funding) The Scholars Strategy Network is opening applications for the second cohort of its two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship to support early-career scholars in any discipline who wish to engage in research and public scholarship to improve public policy and strengthen democracy. After an intensive, short boot camp, each fellow will be based at a university in one of SSN’s regional chapters in either Salt Lake City, San Diego, Utah or Orono, Maine. The program received some last minute funding. They cannot change the deadline, but they have been in contact with me and are happy to talk with potential applicants. Contact me (shellh@email.arizona.edu) for information. 
   Citizenship: Unspecified
   Deadline: March 16, 2018
   Website: http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/page/scholars-strategy-network-2018-2020-postdoctoral-fellowship
   
   
   
   
8. Women’s Philanthropy Institute Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship The goals of the WPI Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship are to increase research and understanding of gender and philanthropy, contribute to building the field of study of gender and philanthropy, and support and encourage emerging scholars in their study of gender and philanthropy.
   Citizenship: Not specified
   Deadline: April 30, 2018
   Website: https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/admissions/financial-aid-scholarships/dissertation-fellowship/wpi-fellowship/index.html 

Miscellaneous 

1. Petition- UMN Divest. The University of Minnesota has a socially responsible investments policy which states, “The University shall consider social responsibility in its investment decisions.” The University has disregarded this policy by investing in corporations that violate human rights. For example, UMN has investments in G4S, a private security company which not only operates in private prisons and youth detention facilities, but also provided security for the Dakota Access Pipeline, using dogs to attack water protectors. UMN also has investments in the Raytheon Company, a defense company that supplies the Israeli military, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Los Angeles County Jail and has tested "less than lethal" weapons on prisoners. The University also has investments in The Boeing Company, which not only supplies the Israeli military with aircraft and weapons - weapons that were used against civilians in Gaza in 2014 - but also has a record of labor rights violations including retaliation against unions and exposing employees to hazardous materials. These are only but a few examples of where UMN invests their money. Vote yes to divest. Download and Print a copy of the petition here. Please bring a signed copy to Coffman 236 at your earliest convenience.
2. Submission Deadline for Teaching Innovation Grants, 3/9 TeachingSupport@UMN will be awarding Teaching Innovation Grants (up to $1,000) starting this spring. Proposals will be accepted from faculty and instructors at any U of M campus. Innovation is broadly defined and encompasses innovation in all forms, including pedagogy, content, accessibility for students with disabilities, and technology.
3. Women's History Month
   

   Women's History Month Celebrate Women's History Month with Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.

   Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now In some ways, the early feminist movement culminated with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that finally gave American women the right to vote. Many feminists felt that adding the Equal Rights Amendment would be the next step in the movement for women’s equality. So far, the ERA has failed to win passage, though it came close. Historian Kimberly Hamlin examines the remarkable story of the ERA to look at who supported it, who opposed it, and how those coalitions shifted across the 20th century. She reminds us why the ERA movement remains as vital today as it was over the last century. Read more...

   Women Who Ran Before Hillary  Hillary Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party to run for president of the United States, but she was certainly not the first woman to seek the office. Historian Kimberly Hamlin profiles women who have tried to win the Presidency. Read more... Feminism in Egypt There is a pervasive sense that custom and religion conspire to oppress women across the Middle East. Historian Gulsah Torunogluexamines the role Egyptian feminists played in the 2011-14 revolutionary era and traces the powerful tradition of Egyptian feminism that stretches back to the nineteenth century. Read more... Abortion in Europe and the U.S. As Anna Peterson discusses, the different histories of abortion in Europe and the United States reveal much about the current state of American debates—so prominent in elections campaigns—over abortion and women’s health. Read more... Women's Rights in Afghanistan A repressive new law in Afghanistan allowing marital rape seems to signal a return to the kinds of policies of the Taliban. While visitors report encountering a land where women are almost completely absent from the public world, historian Scott Levi examines the century-long efforts to improve women's lives in Afghanistan. Read more... Women in the Middle East and Africa Listen in as Johanna Sellman, Gulsah Toronoglu, and Sabra Webber discuss the dynamic history of women in the Middle East and North Africa. Explore the history of women's movements and address the ways in which the flourishing of new media is transforming political and artistic expression. Read more... Reproductive Rights and Justice Sit down with Mytheli Sreenivas, Allison Norris, and Molly Farrell to discuss the past, present, and future of reproductive rights and reproductive justice. What are “reproductive rights,” and how have they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial topic in the U.S.?  Read more... Elizabeth Cady Stanton The famed activist is most closely associated with advocating the right to vote for women and the first women’s rights convention. As Peggy Solic demonstrates, Stanton was a force to be reckoned with, and the most important and well-known female intellectual of her time.  Read more... Phyllis Schlafly Mary Sitzenstatter demonstrates in her review of Donald Critchlow's Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism the overlooked, but vital role that women played in rallying for conservative ideas. Critchlow uses the life and activism of Schlafly  to view conservatism's role in the political sphere.  Read more... Private Matter or Public Crisis? Not too long ago, Americans didn't view domestic abuse as a problem worth talking about. Through the work of feminist activists, as historian Peggy Solic explains, something that was once considered acceptable and private has become unacceptable and public.  Read more... History of #MeToo While many are heralding the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements as an opportunity for change, the issues are hardly new. History Talk speaks with three experts—Treva Lindsey, Kimberly Hamlin, and Martha Chamallas—to discuss the social and legal histories of sexual assault and harassment. Read more... Women's Struggles in Zimbabwe Women in Zimbabwe have not only been suffering the burdens of economic meltdown but working in a variety of ways to bring political change to the country. Brandy Thomas examines the rich history of female activism in Zimbabwe. Read more... Women in American Politics History Talk takes a look at women’s role in American politics. Guests Kimberly Hamlin, Susan Hartmann, and David Steigerwald discuss the impact of women’s suffrage in the twentieth century, the emergence of female political candidates, and the cultural and institutional hurdles faced by women seeking public office. Read more... Violence Against Women People are beginning to give greater attention to violence against women and, at times, to stand against misogynistic violence. History Talk sits down to discuss the origins of gender violence and issues affecting women globally with scholars Treva Lindsey, Cathy Rakowski, and Peggy Solic. Read more... The 1st Time Women Marched Kimberly Hamlin reminds us that the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration more than 5,000 women marched through D.C. to demand the right to vote. It remains the largest suffrage event in U.S. history. These women hoped to attain the vote during Wilson’s administration, and indeed they did. Read more... Power Behind the Throne Traditional histories of the Wars of the Roses focus on battles and the men vying for the throne. As Elizabeth Kerr-Poklinkowski shows in her review of Sarah Gristwood's examination of women's maneuvers behind-the-scenes during the wars, women played a pivotal role in the outcome. Read more... ERA: Then and Now Listen in as we speak with three historians Kimberly Hamlin, Susan Hartmann, and Katherine Marinoabout the long history of the Equal Rights Amendment. Find out why it stalled and how the ERA has garnered both passionate supporters and ardent opponents for nearly a century. Read more...

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