Public Lectures 2000-2001- Text Only
Charise Cheney
Cal Poly
PHALLIC/IES AND HIS (S) TORIES:
MASCULINITY AND THE BLACK NATIONALIST TRADITION
Wednesday, October 4th 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Building 38 Room 114
A PRESENTATION OF THE RACE AND GENDER POLITICS OF BLACK NATIONALISM, FROM SLAVE SPIRITUALS TO RAP MUSIC.
Dr. Emmit “Bud” Evans
Cal Poly
"The Women’s Rights Movement and the Politics of Change: Strategies, Gains and Lessons"
Wednesday, November 8th 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Math & Science Building 38 Room 114
Dr. Evans will examine political change strategies employed by the women’s rights movement from Seneca Falls to Million Moms. He will focus on how we can build on lessons learned from past experiences in order to design strategies that preserve gains made and pursue rights not yet achieved.
Dr. Valerie Peterson
Cal Poly
"Mars & Venus in the Bedroom: What does John Gray Recommend and Why Does That Matter?"
Wednesday, November 29th 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Math & Science Building 38 Room 114
Come take a critical look at the popular manual and its (hetero) sexist advice.
Professor Rachel Fern
Cal Poly
"Dworkin-talk! Political Expediency or Talking the Way She Thinks We Walk?"
Tuesday, February 20th 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Erhart AG Building 10, Room 227
"Since Mill, feminists have argued that there is no language in which women can honestly express and discover
themselves. Andrea Dworkin has been criticized for her use of explicitly sexual, even pornographic language in her
writings. I shall argue that her purpose in using such explicit language is not merely to be politically expedient or to
create shock value. Rather, her aim is primarily to talk honestly in the way she thinks we walk with respect to the
social identity of women and hence, simultaneously, to propose one way of meeting the linguistic need feminists have
identified for women. I arrive at this conclusion by examining Dworkin's views concerning the way meaning is
constructed and her reasons for refusing to apologize for the explicit language."
UCSB Fellow Ruby Tapia
"Breeding Ghosts: Filmic (Re) Conceptions of Motherhood In “Beloved.”
Wednesday, March 14th 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Erhart AG Building 10, Room 227
Ruby Tapia is a graduate student in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego and is currently a fellow in the Women’s Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. Tapia is writing her dissertation on how black women and Latinas are depicted as maternal figures in popular culture and public policy.
Professor Cyd Ropp
"The Rhetoric of Childbirth: When World Views Collide"
Wednesday, April 18th, 1-2 pm
Math & Science Bldg. 38, Room 202
What's so threatening about a midwife? Professor Cyd Ropp will address the midwife as the fraught figure at that center of a tug-of war between different understandings of childbirth. Ropp will discuss the midwife as an important model for childbirth that empowers both the laboring mother and the midwife herself. She will comparatively discuss the obstetric model, which objectifies the laboring mother, and which actively seeks to invalidate and (in some cases) outlaw the positive possibilities presented by midwifery.
Dr. Alesha Doan
Cal Poly
"The Politics of Intimidation: The Impact of Anti-Abortion Harassment and the Threat of Violence"
Thursday, May 17th, 1-2 p.m.
Ag Sciences Bldg. 11, Room 104
Since the 1980's, the pro-life movement has regularly incorporated confrontational lobbying tactics into their strategy of action. Participation has ranged from legal protest, to quasi - legal protest to illegal protesting and violence. The scope of anti-abortion activities remains widespread. In 1985, 85% of abortion providers reported that they have been subjected to at least one form of anti-abortion harassment.
In this lecture, Professor Alesha Doan will focus on two important issues: First, how does the pro-life movement's activities fit into current theories of political participation? And second, what is the impact of the movement's activities on women and abortion providers?
