Margaret Breen’s new book — Narratives of queer desire : deserts of the heart

Margaret Sonser Breen has a new published work

Narratives of queer desire : deserts of the heart
Book Description
An interdisciplinary project that uses literary analysis, along with personal testimony and the applications of gender theory, as a means for identifying and exploring LGBTQ stories, the book considers queer yearnings for stories other than those conventionally available, that [...]

Drowning in the Shallow End: Third Wave Feminis

Thinking of feminism in “waves” continually makes for reinvention — a real stalling technique to real forward motion. The waves (now beginning to hear the start of a 4th wave) is a speck in the whole history of women. This belief that we need to start over leads to loss of our base, the solidity [...]

New NBER Research study: What is needed to increase the number of female students in fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)? Hire more Women Profs.

Thanks to Carol, a friend who is both a feminist and a physicist, for alerting me to these related articles on the needs and issues faced by female students entering STEM fields.
The first artcle is from the daily Web publication Slate which is owned by The Washington Post Company.
A Formula for Success : Want more [...]

freedomhouse.org: Women’s Rights Survey

Freedom House has been in existence since 1941. They looks at many aspects of freedom around the globe. This study of Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA) is set to be completed by fall of 2009. Statistics so far are very telling.
“It is vital that MENA countries more urgently recognize [...]

From Salon Life: Rebecca Traister writes on Palin’s effect

Have you found yourself conflicted about Sarah Palin? She is a woman, after all, but her nomination to the Vice Presidency just did not feel right to a lot of people. There will be lots of discussion on this as we sort it all out. I’ll post the best of what I find. Here are [...]

Pro-(Controlling Your) Life | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org

Pro-(Controlling Your) Life | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
In honor of Mother’s Day, Revolution Health has developed this useful interactive map that gives all 50 states a “momScore” designed, according to the site to:
“…compare and evaluate maternal and early childhood health across the United States.”
To determine the scores, researchers evaluated a variety of factors including: access [...]

» Students and Wikipedia post from Educational Origami

Wikipedia’s been getting a lot of press lately. Positive press. It’s actually a great opportunity to bring in those skills we are trying to develop in all our students: evaluate and corroborate information before you accept it as your own (or as simply valid or true or complete) and do this by [...]

RefWorks comes to UConn

For all you Women’s Studies scholars in our community, trying to manage those hundreds of citations to research for your current projects and those for future reference can be a daunting task.
Now, the University of Connecticut is providing you with a great tool to store, organize, share (with other UConn faculty and students and your [...]

Women’s Studies Dissertations and Theses – Great research!

Available one campus or through VPN with login.
Lots of fascinating research can be found in the Proquest Dissertations and Theses database. Get the full text directly to your comnputer in PDF format! Great resource for comprehensive bibliographies for your own research as well. Stand on the shoulders of these fine WS Scholars.
Here’s a sample:
The [...]

Ms. asks: Women’s Studies degrees and what YOU are doing/planning on doing?

New issue of Ms. (Spring 2007), great read as always, has an article by Nikki Ayanna Stewart, titled “Transform the world: What you can do with a degree in Women’s Studies.” NWSA as well as the Ms. Foundation are gathering information. In Women’s Studies, the 2003 – 2004 National Center for Educational Statistics reported [...]