Susan Bordo, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, and author of the feminist classic, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen, will moderate the presentations and discussion.

Presentations by three PhD students in Gender and Women’s Studies:

Analyzing the selfie: Exploring gender identity through nude photography, Darby Gieringer, M.A.

People love to see beautiful women get old or fat: Policing (Fat) Southern Femininity in Designing Women, Shawna Felkins, M.A.

You Are Not What You Eat: Eating and Weight in US Popular Culture, MaryAnn Kozlowski, M.A.

Reception to follow panel in the Alumni Gallery. 

Sponsored by the Dept. of Gender & Women's studies and the Gaines Center for the Humanities.