Elizabeth Corr is one of the first students to graduate with a degree from Illinois in Gender and Women's Studies in 2004. As the Director of Art Partnerships at the National Resources Defense Council in Chicago, she works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today’s communities. She launched NRDC’s Artist-in-Residence program and is expanding support for NRDC’s art and climate–related projects, from such organizations as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Public Concern Foundation, and Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
It Was Like Something I Had Never Seen Before
40 Years of GWS
Celebrate 40 Years of GWS!
GWS Internship ProgramClassroom Knowledge in Action!
GWS has a new Exhibition Space!
Dear GWS Friends, Colleagues, and Students: We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Berenice A. Carroll earlier this summer. As many of you know, she played a crucial role in the early history of our department, so she will always hold a special place in our memories. In addition to her influential feminist scholarship, her inspired teaching, and her unshakeable commitment to activism for justice and peace, she will be remembered for guiding the creation of an official Women’s Studies Program and the approval of a Women’s Studies Minor at the University of Illinois.
GWS 366This course explores the complex relationship between gender and disability, including the fraught connections that certain avenues of feminist, queer, and transgender politics have with disability.
GWS 333Explores the phenomenon of autobiography in the contemporary world. Students will read theories of autobiography, and ask questions about how writing about the self is gendered, and how representations of the self fare in the outside world.
GWS 363Aspects of popular culture, including television, magazines, newspapers, social networking sites, and internet sources to name a few, are ways that health information is disseminated. Students will examine how we define health and understand disease as related to popular culture.
Spotlight
Elizabeth Labedz never thought sports were for her until she began to play fast pitch softball at the age of ten. She found that playing sports with other girls helped her grow physically, emotionally, and mentally. When Labedz became interested in girls’ studies while earning her degree in gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois, she developed a life-long commitment to helping girls think less about how their bodies look and more about how their bodies work.
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