Research on Women lecture series set

4:09 p.m., Sept. 6, 2005--UD’s fall Research on Women lectures are set for 12:20-1 p.m., Wednesdays, in 103 Gore Hall. The free public lectures continue through Nov. 30.

Speakers and their topics include:

Sept. 7--“Policing the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class: Disparities in Arrest Rates of Prostitution Versus Solicitation,” with Terry Lilley, graduate student, Department of Sociology;
Sept. 14--“What’s Wrong--You Can’t Take A Joke? Images of Violence Against Women in Magazine Advertising” with Juliet Dee, associate professor of communication;
Sept. 21--“Looking for the Invisible Lady: Gender and Illusion in Early National America” with Wendy Bellion, assistant professor, of art history;
Sept. 28--“Images of Motherhood in the Stories of Argentine Writer Julie Cortázar” with Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, associate professor of foreign languages and literature;
Oct. 5--“Locating Prostitutes in the 18th-Century French Bureaucracy,” with Michelle Marmol, Department of History;
Oct. 12--“Women's Rights and War Crimes Trials” with Aaron Fichtelberg, assistant professor of sociology;
Oct. 19--“Letters and Their Role in Revealing Class and Personal Identity in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,” with Jodi Devine, graduate assistant, Department of English;
Oct. 26--“From Wise to Wicked: The Historical Vilification of Green Women,” with Susan Baldwin, communications specialist, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Cooperative Extension;
Nov. 2--“Overt and Relational Aggression in Children” with Julie Hubbard, associate professor of psychology;
Nov. 9--“The Women of Western Electric: Reconsidering Gender Discrimination, Civil Rights and the Meaning of Equity in Post-1960s America,” with Jennifer J. Armiger, graduate student, Department of History;
Nov. 16--“Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating in Korean and U.S. College Women: A Comparative Study,” with Jaehee Jung, assistant professor of consumer studies;
Nov. 23--No lecture, Thanksgiving recess;
Nov. 30—“’Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune’: Sound and Silence, Visibility and Presence in the American Domestic Setting, 1800-70,” with Hillary Murtha, teaching assistant, Department of History; and
Dec. 7--Final exam (for enrolled students only).

Article by Iesha Barnes, AS ‘06

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