UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 1, Page 5
August 31, 1995
Research on Women series to meet on Wednesdays at lunchtime

     Beth Haslett, communication, will talk on "Gender and Work" at
the Sept. 6 lecture in the University's Research on Women Lecture
Series.
     All talks in the series are from 12:20-1:10 p.m. in the Ewing
Room of the Perkins Student Center. The Wednesday lectures are free
and open to the public or may be taken for one credit. The course may
be repeated for credit as content varies.
     Upcoming in the series are:
       "The Women's Suffrage Movement in Delaware" by Carol Hoffecker,
          Richards Professor of History, Sept. 13;
       "Teenage Mothers: Citizens or Dependents?" by Ruth Horowitz,
          sociology, Sept. 20;
       "Fall Through the Safety Net: Women and Poverty" by Karen
          Curtis, urban affairs and public policy, Sept. 27;
       "Women as Revolutionaries," by Wunyabari Maloba, history, Oct.
          4;
       "Re-Conceptualizing Woman Battering in African-American
          Couples," by Robin Beads, urban affairs and public policy,
          Oct. 11;
       "Can't You See What Love and Heartache Done to Me? African-
          American Women and the Blues" by Mary Ruth Warner, women's
          studies, Oct. 18;
       "The 1995 World Women's Conference, Beijing, China" by Marian
          Palley, political science and international relations, Oct.
          25;
       "Politics, Purity and the Empire: Varieties of Feminism in Pre-
          World War I Britain and Ireland" by Ian Fletcher, history,
          Nov. 1;
       "Feminist Jurisprudence and Feminist Public Policy" by Leslie
          Goldstein, political science and international relations,
          Nov. 8;
       "Personal Perceptions of Graduate Student Sexual Harassment" by
          Karen Bauer, institutional research and planning, Nov. 15;
       "Intimate Spaces: Articulating the Voice of Ownership in
          Sherley Anne Williams' 'Dessa Rose'" by Carol Henderson,
          English, Nov. 22; and
       "Women in Democratization: The Namibian Case" by Gretchen
          Bauer, political science and international relations, Nov.
          29.
     A final exam will be given Dec. 6 to enrolled students.
     For information, call the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary
Program at 831-8474.
                                                          -Beth Thomas