Women in Academia

The Feminist Reading Group invites you to join us for our last meeting of the term on Wednesday, March 25th, from 1:30-3:00 pm in UC 384. This meeting will provide a forum for discussion around the particular challenges women in academia may face (including not only forms of systemic sexism, but also age-related discrimination). We will also discuss the challenges and rewards of motherhood for women in academic careers.

No formal preparation for this meeting is required, as we will provide select materials for discussion at the meeting itself. If anyone has material that they would like to contribute for discussion (including online sources), please feel free to send it along ahead of time.

All are welcome!

See these urls for possible points of interest for this meeting.

Journal 1

Journal 2

Globe and Mail article

Celebrity Feminisms

The Feminist Reading Group invites you to join us for our first meeting of the term on Wednesday, January 28^th, from 1:30-3:00 pm in UC 384: “Celebrity Feminisms.” This meeting will interrogate the cultural politics of celebrity feminism, and celebrity-endorsed feminist campaigns—from the Feminist Majority’s celebrity “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” campaign, to Reese Witherspoon’s endorsement of the Avon Empowerment Fund and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women.

No formal preparation for this meeting is required, as we will provide select material from news and media sources at the meeting itself. If anyone has material that they would like to contribute for discussion (including online sources), please feel free to send it along ahead of time. Hope to see you there!!

Here are a few links to start:

Celebrity Feminists

Reese and Avon Campaign

Avon Campaign

Maher on Feminism

Faux Celebrity with Real Celebrifeminist

Celebrity Feminism and Magazines

The Axe Effect: Targeting Advertising Campaigns – A FRG focus group/coffeehouse

The first FRG meeting of 2008 will be held on March 4 from 1:30-2:30 in UC274. The theme for our meeting will be "The Axe Effect: Targeting Advertising Campaigns." This meeting will be an interactive discussion on the representation of women in current advertising. Some of us are coming equipped with examples from print and television advertising – feel free to bring along your own examples, or just come as you are. We have reserved a smart classroom space, so the access of internet resources or other electronic material will not be a problem.
Please see the link below for a small sample of the type of advertising we will be discussing in relation to representations of women, and issues of feminist politics.
Hope to see you all there!

Click Here to See a Sample Axe Ad

Click Here to see another "Axe Effect" Ad that Amber has suggested

This Semester's Theme: “Unheard Voices in Women’s Theatre”

We have chosen our theme for the Fall Semester meeting/ readings. This semester's theme is “Unheard Voices in Women’s Theatre” , and we will focus on understudied or otherwise marginalized women’s theatre from different geographical regions.
Our schedule of meetings and topics for the Fall Semester has also been finalized.
The meeting dates and readings are posted below. Each meeting will take place from 11:30-12:30 in UC 282, and all the readings are available in the Feminist Reading Group folder in Leanne’s office (UC 180). We hope you can make it out!

Fall, 2007

Unheard Voices in Women’s Theatre

11:30-12:30 in UC 282

October 22 – Urdu Theatre
Discussion led by Amber Riaz
Reading: Woman by Rasheed Jahan, and Purdah by Jameela Nishat

November 12 – Native Canadian Theatre
Discussion led by Allison Hargreaves
Reading: Annie Mae’s Movement by Yvette Nolan, and “Writing About Anna Mae Pictou Aquash” by Devon Abbott Mihesuah.

December 3 – Harlem Renaissance Theatre
Discussion led by Ann Gagné
Reading: Rachel by Angelina Weld Grimké

Hope to see you all there!
Regards,
The FRG