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Feminist Change and the University

Lamphere was interviewed by Amy university that had no teaching evalua- Goldstein ’79, staff writer for the tions, so whatever evaluations there were, Washington Post, as part of the were evaluations by rumor.” Pembroke Center’s Feminist Change and Leis informed her of the tenure decision. the University symposium. Held in “‘The department was evenly divided,’ Pembroke Hall on Friday, March 6, the that is the way he put it,” remembered event attracted more than 150 Brown Lamphere. “There were some questions students, faculty, alumnae/i, and faculty about my teaching. It was ‘poor, but not from other institutions. so much worse than others,’ and my Lamphere described how she learned work, particularly my work on women, of her denial of tenure and why, even was ‘theoretically weak.’” When an though the University was in the midst internal appeal failed, Lamphere of a financial crisis, she felt her tenure eventually decided to sue. case should have been a “slam-dunk.” The Pembroke Center’s exhibit, The She observed, for example, that another Lamphere Case: The Sex Discrimination young member of the departmental Lawsuit that Changed Brown, explores faculty, George Hicks, had just gotten Lamphere’s class-action lawsuit and its tenure the year before, but that he had aftermath. To learn more about how had fewer publications than she. Lamphere pursued her lawsuit and what “By that time, , Culture, and it achieved, please visit the exhibit online Society was coming out in April, my at https://pembrokeexhibits.square- Navajo book was being copyedited and space.com or come to Pembroke Hall, would come out within the year, and I located at 172 Meeting Street in Provi- had articles in all the major journals of dence, to view the exhibit through May PHOTO CREDIT: HANK RANDALL American anthropology, so I thought I 24. Pembroke Hall is open Monday – Friday, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm, and during Louise Lamphere tells the story of her lawsuit. had a very strong record,” said Lamphere. Commencement weekend. Woman, Culture, and Society, published in 1974, included Lamphere’s article t was all very collegial until I became a “ “Strategies, Cooperation, and Conflict FEMINIST CHALLENGES NOW feminist,” said Louise Lamphere, when I among Women in Domestic Groups.” asked how she got along with the men Karen Newman, Owen Walker ’33 Highly regarded in the profession, the in Brown’s Department of Anthropology Professor of Humanities and Professor book has become a recognized classic during its early years and about the of Comparative Literature and English, in the field. events that led up to her suing Brown chaired a panel of Brown women faculty for sex discrimination. “But when Phil [Leis, then department to discuss the challenges women still chair] asked me to come into his office, face in the contemporary university. Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, sometime around November, I learned “Certainly part of the unfinished business Emerita, at the University of New that there were serious questions about of the Lamphere discrimination case and past president of the my teaching,” recalled Lamphere. “That remains the small number of minority American Anthropological Association, was the first I had heard of it. This was a faculty at Brown and its peers. Lamphere

Continued on page 4 PEMBROKE CENTER ASSOCIATES COUNCIL From the Director Officers Jean E. Howard ’70 s part of the Pembroke Center’s Modern Culture and Media and Political Chair Acontribution to Brown University’s Science, will lead Theaters of War. Leela Victoria Westhead ’83, P’17 250th Anniversary, the exhibit The Gandhi, the John Hawkes Professor of Vice-Chair Lamphere Case: The Sex Discrimination Humanities and English, will focus on Lawsuit that Changed Brown opened Pacifism in 2017–18. Ariella Azoulay, Members (as of July 1, 2014) with a reception, and Brown University Professor of Modern Culture and Media Bernicestine McLeod Bailey ’68, P’99 P’03 President Christina Paxson hosted a and Comparative Literature, will lead Joan Weinberger Berman ’74, P’05, P’11 Anne Buehl ’88 roundtable, Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Revolution in 2018–19. Women Presidents and the Changing Emily Coe-Sullivan ’99 The Center has applied for external University on March 5. Our daylong Ulle Viiroja Holt ’66, AM’92, PhD’00, P’93, P’03 grants to support lectures, symposia, symposium Feminist Change and the Barbara Dugan Johnson ’83, P’16 exhibits, film screenings, and an interna- Carol Lemlein ’67, P’90 University followed on March 6. tional conference in 2016 on Rape and Robin Lenhardt ’89 Joan Hoost McMaster ’60 The exhibit remains on view in Pembroke War. We have secured the participation Stephanie Morimoto ’99 Hall through Commencement. Please of major scholars for the conference, Leslie Newman ’75, AM’75, P’08, P’12 visit our website to explore the online among whom are colleagues from Barbara Raab ’81 exhibit and videos from the roundtable Nanjing University, who will lead a Sophie Waskow Rifkin ’07 and symposium. I would like to thank panel on the Rape of Nanjing. Carmen Rodriguez ’83, P’14, P’17 the faculty, staff, alumnae, and Pembroke The Watson Institute awarded us a Ava Seave ’77 Center Associates Council members who grant for a May 7 symposium that will Gwenn Masterman Snider ’83, P’13 worked tirelessly to prepare the exhibit and explore the salient critical and method- Leah W. Sprague ’66 to plan and host these well received events. Leora Tanenbaum ’91 ological issues around Rape and War Joanne Topol ’77, P’14 Looking forward, the Pembroke Center in preparation for the 2016 conference. Jasmine Waddell ’99 is about to launch its new research and We recently convened Brown faculty Ulla Wilska P’04 teaching project Thinking War Differ- members from a broad spectrum of Margaret Y. Woo ’79 ently: A Collaborative Critical Project. disciplines and fields who work and Ex Officio Members The next fours years will be dedicated teach on war. They presented proposals Nancy L. Buc ’65, ’94 LLD to the study of war, its new forms, and for the May 7 symposium and the 2016 Joan MacLeod Heminway ’83 how it impacts on notions of gender conference. Jean Miller ’49 and other structures of difference. We also plan to incorporate the Feminist Diane Lake Northrop ’54, P’81, GP’13, GP’16 Chelsey Carrier Remington ’61, P’89, P’92 One of the ways we will study war is Theory Archive into the war project. We Eileen Rudden ’72, P’03, P’07 through the Pembroke Seminar, the will mount an exhibit from the scholarly Phyllis Kollmer Santry ’66 Center’s signature research program, materials of the late political theorist Jean Elizabeth Munves Sherman ’77, P’06, P’09 which convenes scholars from around Bethke Elshtain, who wrote the influential Anita Spivey ’74, P’09 the world to work with Brown faculty, book Women and War during the 1980s. Mary Aguiar Vascellaro ’74, P’07 postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, We look forward to busy and exciting Beverly Heafitz Zweiman ’66, P’01 and undergraduates. This yearlong times, and thank you for your ongoing research seminar meets weekly to support. PEMBROKE CENTER STAFF examine a critical set of questions Denise Davis, AM’97, PhD ’11 from an interdisciplinary perspective. Warm wishes, Managing Editor of differences The next four seminars will explore Donna Goodnow P’07 Center Manager questions related to war. Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Martha Hamblett P’17 will lead next year’s Pembroke Seminar Programs and Stewardship Coordinator Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg on Fatigue. In 2016–17, Bonnie Honig, Wendy Korwin Director the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Archivist Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg Director PEMBROKE CENTER FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH ON WOMEN Christy Law Blanchard Brown University - Box 1958, Providence, RI 02912 Director of Program Outreach phone: (401) 863-3650 fax: (401) 863-1298 email: [email protected] and Development Debbie Weinstein ’93 www.brown.edu/pembrokecenter Associate Director

2 PEMBROKE CENTER Women’s Leadership in Higher

“ onight we are here, in part, to cele- Tbrate the changes that have occurred in the last forty years,” said Jean Howard ’70, chair of the Pembroke Center Associ- ates Council, when welcoming guests to the Pembroke Center-sponsored round- table, Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Women Presidents and the Changing University.

“It is important to remember that positive change does happen and to think criti- cally about the social and institutional

factors that still impede the realization PHOTO CREDIT: MIKE COHEA of full racial and gender equity in institutions of higher education as (L-R) Nannerl Keohane, Shirley Tilghman, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Christina Paxson discuss in society at large,” urged Howard. women’s leadership. President Christina Paxson convened the up a center for research on women and were in the audience. One student roundtable featuring women who have by editing Signs, the feminist journal,” prefaced her question by stating, “Money, been presidents of major universities. said Keohane. “I do think it did change power, and privilege seem to influence Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard Stanford. It was technically coeduca- the sanctioning processes when those University, Nan Keohane, former tional, but this made it more clearly accused are connected to large donors.” president of Wellesley College and Duke feminist.” She asked the presidents how they think about balancing their institutions’ fiscal University, and Shirley Tilghman, former The group discussed how their disci- interests with the safety of their students. president of Princeton University, took plines affected how they approached part in the discussion in the Salomon the presidency. “When I first became “The safety of our students comes first,” Center for Teaching on March 5. president, people would say, ‘You are a responded Paxson. “I know that the case The Chronicle of Higher Education historian, what use is that? How did that that’s been talked about recently is very, coverage provided important context: qualify you for this job?’ I have felt from very difficult, and it is complex, and that “Despite the progress, including at some the outset that there could be no better not everybody agrees with the decisions of the nation’s most elite institutions, background,” said Drew Gilpin Faust. that were made. I can assure you that we are thinking first about our students.” women remain significantly underrepre- “What is history about? It is about change, sented among college presidencies – and and leadership is about change. It is During the lively question and answer the numbers have barely budged. Women about helping people to accept change, period, students raised the concerns make up about a quarter of college helping people get ready for change, of trans people, women of color, queer presidents nationwide, a share that has and understanding what makes people women, and others who have “different remained about the same for at least a resist change,” continued Faust. “I have glass ceilings.” decade.” always felt it was an enormously useful “You have reminded us that we use the disciplinary framework from which to Paxson noted that it might seem unusual term ‘women’ as though everybody is all approach the problems of a presidency.” for a university to celebrate being sued. the same, and we know that is not true,” “We have come to know that Louise Paxson then asked the group about the responded Keohane. Lamphere’s victory was really a victory problems that remain to be solved. for Brown, for women at Brown, and “The way we have been generalizing for universities around the country.” She “I think it is child care... I think it is recog- about women, feminists have learned, if then asked her guests to identify pivotal nizing that our society was structured we stop to reflect on it, that is just not a moments that changed the status of at a time when family expectations for wise thing to do in many instances. In women in their institutions. and fathers were completely other instances, there are ways in which different. We have not yet figured out a women, however different they may be Nan Keohane recalled being at Stanford way to get through those old expecta- in some respects, do share some kinds in the 1970s and receiving an invitation tions and those old cultural practices,” of experiences,” said Keohane. “But you from other young women faculty to said Shirley Tilghman. “Until we figure are right to remind us that women are a discuss how their disciplines could pay this out, we are always going to be diverse category.” attention to women. “We talked about running uphill.” how to change Stanford by founding a View the video: www.brown.edu/ Feminist Studies program with a Ph.D. Students protesting Brown’s handling research/pembroke-center/videos and an undergraduate major by setting of a recent allegation of sexual violence

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a woman serving as our president – the second one – a woman serving as our provost, and another as our dean of the college,” said Hamlin. “A woman chairs the history department for the first time, yet there are only five tenured Black women on campus.” “I’m always shocked by some of my colleagues, some of them women, who believe that diversity is at the expense of excellence and that these concepts are mutually exclusive—I have heard it in faculty meetings—when, in truth, diversity embodies excellence,” stated Hamlin.

PHOTO CREDIT: HANK RANDALL Diane Lipscome, Professor of Neuro- science, urged Brown’s faculty to not Françoise Hamlin discusses how diversity enhances excellence. “settle for the good enough.” Lipscome observed that her department has more fought to have minorities included in “There is this double-jeopardy where, women than men who are graduate the consent decree, but the University if you are a woman of color, you are students and about the same number of refused. Small pools and competition working twice as hard to go against postdocs. She worried, however, that for top minority faculty complicate that two sets of stereotypes,” added Lynch. women leave the pipeline disproportion- goal and remain a challenge,” observed ately as they travel from the postdoc level Sherine Hamdy, Kutayba Alghanim Newman. “We have asked our panelists into faculty positions. Assistant Professor of Social Science and to speak about the challenges that remain Assistant Professor of Anthropology, “This doesn’t happen by accident,” for women, recognizing that ‘women’ is addressed the problem of sexual assault said Lipscombe. “There is a structural a diverse category interwoven by many and at Brown and in problem that we really must try to forms of difference – race, ethnicity, the broader society. “Sexual assault is an address.” She argued for creating religion, sexuality, and gender – at abuse of power. It is not rowdy boys environments to allow graduate students Brown and at large.” drinking too much at parties,” said to succeed, such as providing maternity Amanda Lynch, Professor of Earth, Hamdy. “This affects all of us on the and paternity leave, creating dedicated Environmental and Planetary Sciences faculty. There is sexual harassment lactation rooms, and helping faculty and Environment and Society and that goes on in the faculty.” eliminate implicit bias. director of the Brown Institute for Hamdy addressed Brown’s student Environment and Society, spoke about activism on the issue of sexual assault. KEYNOTE ADDRESS women in the science, technology, “One of the things we learned from engineering, and mathematics Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Louise’s case is that the world was (STEM) fields. Professor of Political Science at the changing before Brown was changing,” University of California, Berkeley, “There was a 2015 study where scientists said Hamdy. “If we pay attention to delivered the keynote, Women Dissolved talked about all of the old tropes of what our students are doing, we can or Defended? The Naming Debate in gender bias: incurring backlash for avoid that mistake.” Reproductive Freedom. expressing anger, or passion, or any Françoise Hamlin, Associate Professor of kind of emotion; being asked for more Brown set the stage by detailing how the Africana Studies and History, discussed evidence of competence; and the pressure Pro-Choice, Pro-Trans campaign has the need for diverse feminist scholarship to take on dead-end roles or house- petitioned two leading reproductive for Brown’s students and the need for a keeping type roles,” said Lynch. “In this healthcare advocates and providers, the more diverse feminist presence on campus. study, there was a lot of stereotyping that National Abortion Rights Action League particularly affected women of color, for “We are here to rightly celebrate the (NARAL) and Planned Parenthood, to example, being mistaken for adminis- remarkable work that was done to win become trans inclusive in both their trative or custodial staff, which happens this lawsuit against Brown that opened healthcare services and in their language. all the time.” up this institution significantly. We have The campaign has demanded that both

4 PEMBROKE CENTER organizations cease speaking of “women” limit access and funding for fertility To view the video of the program please and using terms such as “women’s repro- control. Planned Parenthood has found visit: http://www.brown.edu/research/ ductive health,” “women’s freedom,” that framing these attacks on repro- pembroke-center/videos “women’s choice,” and “women’s control ductive choice as a “” over their bodies.” is highly effective for fundraising WITH APPRECIATION and voting. Brown explained their rationale: “Since The day concluded with a reception and there are people born into biologically Brown argued that names matter. “From a special presentation to Jean Howard female bodies or assigned female gender Sojourner Truth’s ‘Ain’t I a Woman’ to ’70, who chaired the committee that at birth who don’t identify as women, Stokely Carmichael’s use of ‘Black Power’ developed the Lamphere exhibit and and since there are people born into to differentiate a new set of goals from planned the related events. Suzanne biologically male bodies or assigned the integration, to the uptake and resignifi- Stewart-Steinberg, director of the male gender at birth, who do identify as cation of the terms ‘dyke,’ ‘fag,’ and ‘queer’ Pembroke Center, presented Howard women, and since there are people born by a new movement for Gay Pride, the with a framed exhibit poster and her into sexually ambiguous bodies, who politics of words and names have been thanks for Howard’s extraordinary may or may not, the claim is that ‘women’ hugely important in social movements leadership over the duration of the is a misnomer for those needing what and political change,” she said. two-year project. Howard chaired the these organizations promise.” Brown suggested that oppression does committee comprising the following alumnae, staff, and faculty: Trans advocates argue that the language not emerge from one unified system of of “women” that these organizations use power, but instead from a range of Nancy L. Buc ’65, ’94 LLD forces trans people to seek health care different discourses or relations of power. and reproductive freedom under a Therefore, all progressive causes cannot Amy Goldstein ’79 manifestly inaccurate gender sign and be assimilated to one unified struggle for Wendy Korwin, Pembroke Center that these organizations are perpetuating justice. She questioned the effectiveness Archivist the falsehood that the term “women” of inclusive naming to cover multiple simply aligns with female anatomy. political projects. Karen Newman, Owen Walker ’33 Professor of Humanities and Professor of Trans activists and NARAL and Planned Comparative Literature and English, Parenthood do share goals, including Pembroke Center Director 1987–1993 fighting gender subordination, securing reproductive autonomy, and destigma- Barbara Raab ’81 tizing sexuality and kinship that fall Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Pembroke outside of conventional family forms. Center Director and Professor of However, Brown argued, this does not Comparative Literature and Italian mean that the groups share all goals, Studies tactics, or constituencies. Kay B. Warren, Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. “Theory is not identical to politics, and ’32 Professor of International Studies and political correctness is not the same as Professor of Anthropology, Pembroke political effectiveness,” cautioned Brown. Center Director 2011–2014 “Theory can incite, illuminate, and help transform political life, but it is not Elizabeth Weed, AM ’66, PHD ’73, identical with it.” Pembroke Center Director 2000–2010 PHOTO CREDIT: HANK RANDALL “These skirmishes may hold some lessons Debbie Weinstein ’93, Pembroke Center Wendy Brown explores the politics of naming. for more effective political activism Associate Director across a range of projects and possibil- NARAL and Planned Parenthood have ities. That is why my approach has not resisted the request to stop using been to resolve the impasse, but to “women” for many reasons, including contextualize, analyze, and theorize it,” their belief that a lack of control over said Brown. “This is one of the things sexuality, fertility, and reproductive that feminist studies retains as its practices has been a lynchpin of gender mission, as part of its promise, in both inequality. These organizations also have scholarly research and the classroom.” argued that they are fighting efforts to

PEMBROKE CENTER 5 Pembroke Center Student Research Grant Recipients 2014-15

Chanelle Adams ’15 Patricia Ekpo ’15 Henry looks at the women who Science and Technology Studies American Studies, Gender and examined, counted, and buried the dead Linda Pei Undergraduate Research Grant Sexuality Studies in England from Tudor plague epidemics Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant to early Victorian cholera outbreaks. Bills “Gender, Health, of Mortality contain the decisions made Commodity, Power: “Everyday Utopia in by women searchers of the dead, and Situating Malagasy Virtual Spaces: Tumblr, those judgments influenced public health Medico-Botanical Depression, and Queer policy. Women worked as searchers Community Practices in Futurity” only temporarily in cities outside the ‘Informal Economy’” The social media site London, but within the greater metro- Adams posits that international corpora- Tumblr is an increas- politan area, they obtained increasing tions and NGOs enact natural resource ingly vital sphere of subcultural, queer, responsibility through the politics of the extraction and epistemic violence upon and feminist sociality and aesthetic parish to become sextonesses and pew the Malagasy people and environment production. Patricia Ekpo’s thesis keepers with multiple responsibilities, under the rubric of development and focuses specifically on feminine, queer including witnessing baptisms and environmental conservation. The of color users who express themselves marriages. Ultimately, these eye- and colonial impulse to taxonomize creates on Tumblr through their lived experi- ear-witnesses to life and death in the reductive databases of the rich flora for ences of depression as well as through parish disappeared as parish involvement pharmaceutical applications, ignoring larger formations of racial and sexual in social administration at the local level the cultural and social components of melancholia. She examines a queer diminished and an emerging profes- the materials. While the protection and depressive Tumblr aesthetic that is sional identity excluded women. Henry understanding of these natural resources formulated through the production considers the rise of searchers, sexton- is important for a global database of and circulation of images and text such esses, and women undertakers as public medicine, it is even more vital for local as somber selfies, landscape portraits officers in English cities. She explores people who depend on the forest as their of empty bedrooms, journal-like text how age and class complicated the primary source of healthcare and culture. posts, or pop culture objects. Ekpo gendered discourse, which criticized analyzes how users enact radical vulner- searchers, and argues that replacement Adams’s research is situated within ability online as both a performance of women had little to do with medical the traditional healthcare system of and resistive practice. She asks how training. northern Madagascar, called “pharmacie this depressive aesthetic and practice gasy.” She traces a complex network of Elaine Hsiang ’15 is informed by earlier iterations of culture, tradition, power, health, and Health and Human Biology and cyberutopian knowledge between the marketplace and Barbara Anton Internship Grant ideation and what it can contribute to rural surrounding areas. Even though conceptions of everyday queer utopia. “Mapping (Un)Safe this knowledge, specific to a unique How do depressed queer subjects form Spaces: LGBTQ geographic and cultural locale, cannot ambivalent, contingent orientations to Health since the HIV/ be applied more broadly, Adams argues the future that challenge accepted queer AIDS Epidemic” that it deserves to be rigorously discussed temporal frameworks? Finally, what and documented within its own socio- Despite its recent personal and political purpose does cultural environment. Adams works with recognition by this mode of expression serve? practitioners of this medico-botanical healthcare providers and public health knowledge, most of whom are women, Wanda Henry researchers as an area of need, the to map and archive these networks of Graduate Student, Department of History specific and diverse health care needs knowledge. Steinhaus-Zisson Research Grant experienced by LGBTQ populations have been ignored. Of particular note are the “Searching the Dead rights and regulations surrounding trans and Burying the individuals seeking medical and/or social Bodies: Searchers of the acceptance and visibility. Dead, Sextonesses, and Women Undertakers In a 2003 article in the journal Sexualities, in England from the Steven Epstein describes the recent Sixteenth to Nineteenth phenomenon of “state-centered” LGBTQ Centuries” health advocacy as a form of health

6 PEMBROKE CENTER activism in the . Epstein violence that injures and violence that Nicosia Shakes is cautious about a more inclusive redresses, between the colonial power of Graduate Student, Department of biomedical politics, since the adoption segregation and the decolonial power of Africana Studies of state policies that work to include forced return. Through an exhibit and a Steinhaus-Zisson Research Grant “special populations” may have the publication, Mehta examines the contra- “Women’s Theatre and harmful consequence of remedicalizing dictions of an indigenous that Feminist Activism in bodies. Using a historical approach was co-opted by the militarized state Jamaica and South to looking at LGBTQ health since the and a joint humanitarian operation that Africa: A Study of advent of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, resulted in the nonconsensual repatri- the Sistren Theatre Hsiang analyzes how treatment of queer ation of women. Collective and the identities as a “medical problem” has Esme Ricciardi ’15 Mothertongue Project” changed in recent history. A centerpiece International Relations of her project is mapping and cataloguing Shakes examines the Sistren Theatre Steinhaus-Zisson Research Grant same-sex marriage laws and LGBTQ Collective, Jamaica and the - health policy across the states. Hsiang “Islamic Immigrations, tongue Project, South Africa as case evaluates the progress of Massachusetts Sex Trafficking, and the studies for understanding women’s and Rhode Island in improving sexual Media: The Impact of theater-based activism as a component minority health through collaboration Gendered Trafficking of feminist mobilization. She employs an with Fenway Health in Boston, Massa- and Terrorism interdisciplinary framework combining chusetts, and the Rhode Island Public Discourses on Migration theatre and performance studies, gender Health Institute in Providence. Policy in the Post–9/11 and sexuality studies, and political EU” thought in order to assess how the Rijuta Mehta two organizations engage in feminism Graduate Student, Department of The Netherlands has traditionally had a through performance and social activism. Modern Culture and Media tolerant and progressive society and has Her data collection strategies include Steinhaus-Zisson Research Grant allowed immigrants to find safe haven textual and performance analyses, inter- within its borders. In the early 2000s, “The Repatriation views, participant observation, and Pim Fortuyn began a political party (the Portrait: Women at archival studies. Shakes compares and “Pim Fortuyn List”) to promote his anti- the End of Empire, contrasts the organizations’ work in immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-European 1947–1953” order to underscore the importance of Union (EU), and anti-austerity platform approaching studies of Black women’s The Repatriation and managed to gain major popularity, activism through multifarious lenses, Portrait is a photo- prior to his assassination. In the years while identifying similar trends. She aims graphic history of the search and rescue following his death, the political to contribute to an understanding of operations targeted at women after atmosphere has featured growing women’s performance as a site of feminist the partition of India and Pakistan hostility toward Muslims and broader praxis in the Caribbean and Africa (1947–1953). In the absence of images pushes to close borders. south of the Sahara. More broadly, it is that depict overt and illegal atrocities Ricciardi examines the basis of this commensurate with an emergent body against women during the time of state anti-immigration and anti-Islamic of knowledge on the significance of arts- foundation, Mehta’s project focuses on political climate in the Netherlands, and based activism in democratic systems photography’s role in rescuing injured the EU as a whole, through analyzing worldwide. women at a moment when rescue and gendered media discourses. She utilizes rehabilitation were enacted lawfully, the framework of “traffickingandterror” but nonconsensually. How was photog- that was developed by Pardis Madhavi raphy used when the enemy states of in order to demonstrate that protecting India and Pakistan decided to repatriate white women from brown men has been abducted women on both sides of the used as the basis for anti-immigrant border and return them to their original sentiment. Ricciardi examines in depth households, without exception? Taking the specific case of the “loverboys”: photography’s implication in state Muslim men convicted of trafficking humanitarianism, by facilitating the law, their ethnically Dutch girlfriends into she seeks to draw connections between prostitution.

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I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming Young women today are encouraged Tenure She Wrote: Alumnae Professors in the Age of the Internet to express themselves sexually. Yet Share Strategies for Success New York, NY (midtown) when they do, they are derided as Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street Hosted by Amy Finn Binder ’77, P’02, “sluts,” caught in a double bind of mixed Panelists: Sangeeta N. Bhatia ’90, M.D., P’09 and Ava Seave ’77 sexual messages. How can they be sexy without being slutty? And how Ph.D. , Biomedical Engineer and  did they get in this bind to begin with? Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Leora Tanenbaum ’91 – author of the Technology and Judith Sims-Knight groundbreaking work Slut! – will talk ’65, Ph.D., Chancellor Professor of about her new book and offer fresh Psychology, UMASS Dartmouth insights into the digital and face-to-face Moderator: Nancy L. Buc ’65, ’94 LL.D. worlds young women inhabit. She will This academic year, women make up 30 share her new research on slut-shaming, percent of Brown’s faculty. In 1974–75, the coping mechanisms young women women comprised less than eight currently use, and suggest a new percent of Brown’s faculty. The ranks of direction to eradicate slut-shaming women faculty in higher education have for good. grown across the nation, but challenges Space is limited and preregistration is remain, particularly for women of color. required. R.S.V.P. to (401) 863-3433 or Brown alumnae who have achieved [email protected]. tenure at other institutions will discuss how the roles of women have changed in the Academy, how has persisted, and their strategies for success.