Megan Gargiulo from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese received the Marianne A. Ferber Scholarship for her dissertation project, entitled "Race, Gender, and Recogimiento: Discursive Negotiations of Space, Sexuality, and Productivity in Late Colonial Mexico." Honorable mention went to Rachel Storm (EPOL)for her proposal, “Restorative Justice and Sexual Violence: The Views of Victim’s Advocates.”
GWS Year End Party
New Exhibit in the GWS Gallery
GWS Annual Smalley Lecture
Pick up a Fall Course Guide at GWS!Shizu Saldamando, "Sandra and Tammy, Hollywood Forever," oil paint, mixed media on wood
Hell Holes or Saviors
Take a GWS Course this Summer!
Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
Feminist Friday
40 Years of GWS
Celebrate 40 Years of GWS!
GWS Internship ProgramClassroom Knowledge in Action!
The history of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies is the featured exhibit this month at the Main Library building. The display highlights key moments in the four decades of the department, spotlights the 1986 National Women’s Studies Association Conference which was held at Illinois, and celebrates the work of several GWS faculty members. GWS thanks Gender and Multicultural Services Librarian Cindy Ingold and Mary Elmquist, graduate assistant from the Social Socials, Health, and Education Library for creating an amazing exhibit. Look for the finger puppet of Michel Foucault!
The Discovery Partners Institute will provide a seed grant for a project headed by Terri Barnes (GWS and History), Mauro Nobili (History) and Laila Hussein Mustafa (International Area Studies Library). Their group seeks to create innovative education materials in gaming and/or virtual reality formats as vehicles for research, teaching and engagement, while conserving digital version of vulnerable African sites and materials.
GWS 378Discusses how femininity and gender formation are related through fairy tales. As children grow they are taught the difference between male and female roles.
GWS 335Examines the history and theory of film, television, and their interrelationship through one or more specific case studies. Topics may include: film and feminist movements; girl films; queer TV; gender, sport and TV.
GWS 275Through the politics of dress, this course investigates the inseparable links between cultures, aesthetics, and politics, as demonstrated in debates about Muslim practices of veiling, the role of clothing in colonialism's "civilizing" mission, immigrant and "third world" sweatshop labor and globa
GWS 470This course familiarizes students with the major concepts, frameworks, and central debates animating transgender studies scholarship and politics.
GWS 204Examines the history of gender in videogames, focusing on how movements like #GamerGate, #RaceFail09, internet bullying, doxing and trolling emerged as the coordinated effort to consolidate and maintain videogames and geek culture as the domain of masculinity and whiteness.
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
GWS Major Shameem Razack will receive the DiversityEd Social Justice Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student. A transfer student from Parkland, Shameem has only been on campus for a year, but she has already become a leader in promoting the visibility and rights of marginalized peoples.
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