Women’s Studies News Items
Tiya Miles discusses her work on the intersecting history of African Americans and Native Americans on the American Public Media radio program, On Being
2/6/2012
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Sarah Fenstermaker is appointed as Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
1/31/2012
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A collection of Gayle Rubin's most influential essays is released
1/31/2012
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Holly Hughes’ recent solo show, “The Dog and Pony Show: Bring Your Own Pony,” has been nominated for a national GLAAD Media Award
1/30/2012
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Anna Kirkland writes in the New York Times on expanding legal safeguards to include weight
12/2/2011
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Trevor Hoppe has been conducting extensive interviews with local health department officials about how they have been applying state laws related to HIV
12/1/2011
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Sudan’s Secession and the Future Ahead, A Conversation with Amal Hassan Fadlalla is in the Journal of the International Institute
11/22/2011
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Women's Studies and Psychology Ph.D. alum Bre Fahs' new book, Performing Sex, offers a provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in the U.S.
11/3/2011
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Terri Conley's research on gender and sexual behavior is in Jezebel
10/17/2011
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The Fall 2011 Women's Studies Newsletter is Online
10/3/2011
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See the Ann Arbor Journal's coverage of the Lane Hall Exhibit Reception, "A Woman's Place is in the Struggle"
10/1/2011
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In Science Now, Sari van Anders commented on a study that showed men with children have a decrease in testosterone.
9/14/2011
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Congratulations to our joint doctoral program alumni on their sucessful job placements
9/13/2011
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Carol Jacobsen is interviewed about her films on women incarcerated in the U.S. in the Signs Online Journal: Films for the Feminist Classroom
9/8/2011
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Holly Hughes speaks with the Detroit Free Press about Summer's Eve ads contribution to more candid conversation about women's bodies
8/15/2011
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There has recently been a series of sexual assaults near the UM campus. Learn more about the steps we can take to increase our personal and collective safety.
8/13/2011
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Amal Hassan Fadlalla and other scholars assess the future of Southern Sudan in a podcast from the Hammer Museum at UCLA
6/14/2011
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AAUW Names Abigail J. Stewart 2011 Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Awardee
6/13/2011
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Ph.D. Candidate and D-Funk Allstars roller derby team member Molly Hatcher is featured in LSA Magazine, "Don't Let the Fishnets Fool You"
5/20/2011
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Maria Cotera works to create a museum that will remember the thousands of Mexicans unjustly deported during the 1930s
5/19/2011
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Carol Jacobsen talks with LSA Magazine about the Michigan Women's Justice and Clemency Project
5/16/2011
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Sarah Chapman and Zakiya Luna awarded McGuigan prizes for best essays in Women's Studies. Alex Cooperstock receives honorable mention.
4/12/2011
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Read about Terri Conley's study of the varying motivations and attitudes that men and women have towards casual sex
3/22/2011
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Ellen Eisenman's exhibit in Lane Hall, we will not be silent, is reviewed in AnnArbor.com
3/21/2011
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Nadine Naber's article "Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egyptian Revolution" is in Jadaliyya.com
2/14/2011
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View David Halperin's Distinguished University Professorship lecture: " Are Homosexuals Still Sick?"
2/12/2011
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Nadine Naber and Philip Potter discuss the struggle against authoritarian rule in Egypt
2/10/2011
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Amal Hassan Fadlalla is cited in an article on Redefining Sudan
2/2/2011
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Spotlight on Graduate Coordinator Aimee Germain
1/28/2011
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New style of Michigan Women's Studies t-shirts in women’s fit and sizes
1/22/2011
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Amal Hassan Fadlalla is quoted in an article on Sudan's Beauty Revolution in Al-Ahram Weekly
1/21/2011
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The winter Lane Hall Exhibit, "we will not be silent, photographs by ellen eisenman," is up
1/6/2011
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Gayle Rubin's book, Surveiller et jouir: Anthropologie politique du sexe (Discipline and Pleasure: Political Anthropology of Sex) is published in French
1/2/2011
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The U-M Spectrum Center Celebrates Doin it for 40 Years with a year-long program of LGBT education and entertainment
1/1/2011
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Holly Hughes' piece Let Them Eat Cake, is reviewed in the Village Voice
12/8/2010
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Esther Newton is honored at the American Anthropological Association with a symposium, The Mother (Camp) of Us All
11/21/2010
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The Michigan Daily Reports on the panel, "The Politicized Voices of American-Muslim Women"
11/19/2010
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The Brian Lehrer Show features Anna Kirkland and Jonathan Metzl discussing their new book, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality
11/18/2010
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Carol Jacobsen Advocates for Commuting the Sentences of Battered Women in the Detroit Free Press
11/4/2010
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Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland, is released
11/3/2010
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Shaw Lecturer Robin Givhan, Fashion Editor of the Washington Post, talks about Fashion, Power, and Politics
10/18/2010
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Elizabeth Cole and Nadine Hubbs comment on "The End of Tenure" in a letter to the New York Times
9/27/2010
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Access to the Judicial Bypass Option in Michigan: Is There Really an Option for Minors?
9/8/2010
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Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing by Adela Pinch, is released
9/7/2010
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U-M Women's Studies researchers Leskinen, Cortina, and Kabat find that gender harassment is just as distressing for women as sexual advances in the workplace
8/11/2010
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Timothy R.B. Johnson and Judy Norsigian Write About the High Cost of Caesarean Births in the Boston Globe
6/28/2010
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Jonathan Metzl discusses his book The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease on the Australian National Radio Program, All In The Mind
5/3/2010
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Women's Studies Alum Corrie Wallace, Director of the Parent Center for Immigrant and Refugee Families, is Interviewed on Chicago Public Radio
4/28/2010
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Women's Studies Faculty David Caron and Holly Hughes are Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
4/19/2010
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Lynn Verduzco Baker and Jamie Budnick Receive McGuigan Prizes for Best Essays in Women's Studies. Laura Winnick Receives Honorable Mention.
3/23/2010
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Gay Shame by David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, is released
2/4/2010
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Jonathan Metzl is featured in a Science Daily article about a study that found black men are overdiagnosed with schizophrenia more than any other group
1/11/2010
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Susan Siegfried's book Ingres: Painting Reimagined, is released
10/1/2009
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A Tribute to Retiring Professor of Art and Women's Studies, Joanne Leonard
8/8/2009
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Professor Jonathan Metzl Writes About His Direct Experience With China's Response to the H1N1 Virus in the Kansas City Star and the Los Angeles Times
7/13/2009
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Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters by Dena Goodman, is released.
5/20/2009
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Hannah Rosen's book, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South is released
1/22/2009
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Professor Jonathan Metzl and others discuss the controversies of psychiatric diagnosis on National Public Radio's "On The Media"
1/5/2009
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Women's Studies Major Andy Kravis Wins on the Television Game Show Wheel of Fortune
5/1/2008
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"Arms and Virility," a lecture delivered by Journalist Amira Hass
4/29/2008
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Anna Kirkland's book, Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood is released
4/20/2008
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Nadine Naber's book, Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects is released
4/8/2008
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Thinking Class an informational web site on poor and working- class student issues
4/7/2008
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What's Different About this Class? Guys Grasp that Women's Studies is for Them, Too in LSA Magazine
4/1/2008
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Amal Hassan Fadlalla's book, Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan, is released
10/30/2007
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