Gender Studies

Isabella Bird Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Englishwoman Meets Desperado in the Wild West of Colorado When a sickly British spinster decided to travel into the wilds of Colorado, she had no idea that notorious desperado "Mountain Jim" would fall in love with her. In her...

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SF City Workers Shut Down Market St. Eighteen Arrests

SFPD arrested 18 this evening at a protest against cuts to city jobs. Many of those jobs support health and education. Hundreds of members of SEIU Local 1021 blocked Market Street tonight at the peak of rush hour, protesting...

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Three with local ties win Rhodes scholarships

Daniel Shih, Russell Perkins and Stephanie Bell are heading for Oxford next year Two residents of the Chicago area and a University of Chicago graduate are among the 32 Americans chosen this year as Rhodes scholars, the...

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UofL Grad Named Rhodes Scholar

First In University's History POSTED: 4:48 pm EST November 22, 2009 UPDATED: 5:00 pm EST November 22, 2009 LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A 2009 University of Louisville graduate has won a Rhodes Scholarship -- the oldest and most...

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3 Chicago-area students named 2009 Rhodes Scholars

Three students with Chicago area ties are among the 32 American men and women named Saturday as 2009 Rhodes Scholars, considered one of the nation’s most prestigious academic honors. The Rhodes scholarships provide for all...

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[monochrom] Modern Architecture and Complaints about the Weather, or, 'Dear Monsieur Le...

Historians of Modern Architecture have cultivated the image of the architect as a temperamental genius, unconcerned by issues of politeness or pragmatics—a reading reinforced in cultural representations off Modern Architects,...

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CFP: Biography and Identity: Dilemmas and Opportunities. 4th Annual Graduate Conference in...

Informationen zu diesem Beitrag Central European University, Budapest; In cooperation with the European University Institute, Florence Budapest Think that biography is an outmoded genre that should be relegated to the fringes...

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Just a quick thought about the UC tuition hike

The UC regents voted for a steep increase in tuition. Some have pointed to the unedifying spectacle of whining middle class students taking to the streets to protest the tuition increase, since they prefer to have California’s...

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Gender issues must be on the teacher education agenda

Vrijdag 20 november 2009 | Swedish Presidency of the European Union ] Discussions at one workshop at the conference on Gender Differences in Educational Achievement that concluded on Wednesday 18 November in Uppsala focused on...

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Speaker discusses plasticity of society

QuEST, the Office of Intercultural Development and Women's and Gender Studies invited sociologist Dr. Laurie Essig to Skillman Library on Tuesday to discuss the "plasticity" of our society. Through the discussion of "American...

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