Category: Women’s Studies

Highest ranking female official discusses women in the military

Highest ranking female official discusses women in the military

The highest ranking female official in the U.S. military did not even plan on making the military her career.
Lt. Gen. Kathleen Gainey spoke to students and faculty last week at Morris University Center about being a woman in the military and working in a diverse environment.
Lt. Gen. Kathleen Gainey, who is currently stationed at Scott […]

Safe Connections representative emphasizes healthy sexual behaviors

Safe Connections representative emphasizes healthy sexual behaviors

Consensual. Intimate. Safe.
Those were just a few words thrown out by students to describe good sex during a healthy sexual behaviors presentation last week.
Lauren Keefer of Safe Connections, an organization that provides counseling and services to victims of sexual and domestic violence, spoke to roughly 35 students, focusing on consent and communication.
In regard to consent, […]

Rita Levi-Montalcini

SIUE Honors Rita Levi-Montalcini for International Women’s Day

Last Saturday SIUE faculty and students gathered for a special celebration of the life of Rita Levi-Montalcini. Originally Montalcini was scheduled to give a special guest presentation on the date, however she passed away last December at the age of 103.
A noted neural scientist, Montalcini won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1986 with Stanley […]

OASIS Women's Center representative speaks out about domestic violence

OASIS Women’s Center representative speaks out about domestic violence

A woman is battered every nine seconds. One out of every three women is battered by a partner or ex-partner. And battering is the leading cause of injury for women – higher than muggings, car accidents and rapes combined.
Marcy Jacobs of the OASIS Women's Center spoke to roughly 30 students about domestic violence. She explored […]

SIUE officers teach RAD techniques to women's studies class

SIUE officers teach RAD techniques to women’s studies class

Students who attended a shortened self-defense seminar prior to spring break are now more prepared to defend themselves should the need arise.
SIUE police officers teach self-defense techniques to a Women's Studies class prior to spring break.
Sgt. Lisa Johnson and SIUE officers Tara Vaughn and Trisha Bland spoke to a Women’s Studies class, discussing Rape Aggression […]

Art and design professor explores feminism in Baroque art

Art and design professor explores feminism in Baroque art

Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi bucked the trend set forth for traditional women artists in the 17th Century while at the same time creating marketable paintings.
Art and design professor Katherine Poole-Jones discusses the life and work of Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
Art and Design professor Katherine Poole-Jones lectured about Gentileschi’s work last week for Women’s Studies program […]

Coffee with Cool Women features St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter

Coffee with Cool Women features St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter

Imagine talking to the person directly, or indirectly, responsible for the death of a child, and publishing that conversation for hundreds of people to read.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nancy Cambria discusses her career as a journalist during the first Coffee with Cool Women event of the spring semester. Photo by Kari Williams
That is just one […]

Coffee With Cool Women series begins today

Coffee With Cool Women series begins today

Women’s Studies program chair Catherine Seltzer started bringing real-world conversations to campus about a year and a half ago when she created the Coffee with Cool Women series.
“I was talking with colleagues and friends and asking my successful friends how they got to where they are, and part of what they said was it wasn’t […]

Dr. Elizabeth Ferries-Rowe

Ferries-Rowe talks on reproductive ethics, women’s health

The Women’s Studies Program hosted two events concerned with women’s health issues on Dec. 5 and 6, 2012. Both events, a lecture co-sponsored by the Philosophy department on Dec. 5 and this semester’s last Coffee with Cool Women gathering on Dec. 6, featured Dr. Elizabeth Ferries-Rowe, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana […]

Caroline Pender

Caroline Pender featured speaker for Coffee With Cool Women

The Women’s Studies department hosted its second Coffee with Cool Women gathering this semester on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Coffee With Cool Women is a series of “flash mentoring events” that invites women of varying professions and backgrounds to speak with SIUE students about their personal and professional experiences that have contributed to their success.
Caroline […]

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