Professor Ania Loomba will be speaking about her new book, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India. Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India, from the late 1920s, shortly after the…

Please join us for a Work-In-Progress lunch with Lauren Jade Martin, APC Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies Minor Program Coordinator, Penn State University (Berks campus). Paper Title: Delayers, Deciders, and Decliners: Using Longitudinal Data…

Department of History Annenberg Seminar: Newer Women and Newer Men in Interwar Britain, given by Reba N. Soffer of California State University.

This conference will explore some of the many women's voices in Ok, I'll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness, an exhibition highlighting selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness. The keynote speaker…

Come and visit the Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program in our new space in Fisher-Bennett Hall! RSVP to Luz Marin lmarin@sas.upenn.edu

Alicia Meyer, "Bed(lam): Maidservants, Race, and Sexuality in Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen." In this talk, I investigate the ties between the sexual agency, race, and political power in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613). I argue that the…

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Please join the GSWS program as we celebrate our seniors graduating with honors: Kerry Schellenberger, "Android Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Star Trek" (Schellenberger's photo featured here) Sarah Thompson, "Portrait of a Marriage: Carol and Phil Mendel"…

Jess Shollenberger (English), On Being “Regularly Gay There”: Gertrude Stein’s Queer Ordinary In this presentation, I revisit Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene,” a portrait of two ladies being “regularly gay.” I situate this understudied composition with respect to…

Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights will lead a broad-ranging discussion with Andrea Ritchie, activist, attorney, and scholar. Ritchie’s new book Invisible No…