Gender Studies Department
The first 15 projects have been selected for a new interdisciplinary research studies initiative at Indiana University that focuses on global issues and their linkages across borders and to local communities.
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Nancy Fraser, the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, will present two Patten Foundation lectures this spring at Indiana University. Fraser will speak on "Nature, Labor, Money: Flashpoints of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century" on January 25 (Tuesday), and on "Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis" on January 27 (Thursday). Both lectures will take place in Rawles Hall, Room 100, at 7:30 p.m.
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The role that rural life and rural thinking plays in scholarship involving gender and sexuality will be the focus of a national two-day symposium at Indiana University Bloomington called "Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies."
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The Playboy bunny. The French maid. The genie. Young American women wear Halloween costumes that seem to have lower necklines and higher slits each year. Brenda Weber, associate professor in the IU's Department of Gender Studies, discusses the role desires, media, advertising and consumerism play in this 'frightful' trend.
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IU Health and Wellness for September discusses the downfalls of multitasking, provocative Halloween costumes, how getting involved on campus can help college students graduate and tips for managing time.
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When people say they "had sex," what transpired is anyone's guess. A new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found that no uniform consensus existed when a representative sample of 18- to 96-year-olds was asked what the term meant to them.
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