Knocked Up and Locked Up: Pregnancy and Prisons in Literature and Law
The Fall 2014 course will examine the political, racial and social contexts that pregnant women in prison experience.
Ghosts of Doctors Past with Melissa Stein
Medical standards and procedures have been sharply influenced by the past - shaped by social context and a great deal of trial and error. A new course, GWS 309: Health, History, & Human Diversity, will focus on how health care and the medical field has been shaped around social constructions of gender, race, and diversity throughout its history, continuing to play a role in contemporary medicine.
Perhaps Blue and Pink Aren't the Right Colors
In "Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes," A&S faculty member Christia Spears Brown explores how parents can truly validate their children's unique strengths.
disClosure Goes Digital Through UKnowledge
"disClosure," the annual thematic publication on contemporary social theory, has gone digital thanks to UK Libraries' UKnowledge website.
GWS End of Year Celebration
Come celebrate GWS students and the end of the semester!
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Commonwealth House
Vote, Pray, Write: (Researching) Women and Religious Politics in India
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Whitehall CB 233
A&S Undergraduate Wins Scholarship to Study at Oxford
Ryan Winstead, an English and gender and women's studies junior, has been awarded an English-Speaking Union (ESU) Scholarship presented by the English-Speaking Union Kentucky Branch.
"The New Social Justice Documentary"
Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin, is an internationally prominent film scholar and feminist critic who has lectured on five continents about the political and economic dynamics of race and gender in contemporary film. She is the author, editor or co-editor of seven books: Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (2001), A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002); The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture (2006); Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007); What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (2008); Old and New Media After Katrina (2010); and In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011).
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18th floor of POT
GWS Research Matters
Assistant Professor of Health Promotion Director of Sexual Health Promotion Lab. "Let's talk about (pleasurable) sex: a couple-based approach to sexual health promotion"
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107 Breckinridge Hall
UK Film Series Looks at 1938 Documentary of Lebanon Family
"Reel to Reel: Special Collections at the Movies" will showcase the 1938 documentary "Our Day," telling the story of the Kelly family in Lebanon, Ky.