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BU Research: Female Activists Behind the Black Power Movement
Ashley Farmer was exasperated. She was tired of reading historical accounts of the postwar black freedom struggle in America that cast black female activists only as helpmates to male leaders. Just as men had overshadowed women at the time, so had the popular narrative of the era erased the contributions untold numbers of women made […]
Reliving a Pivotal Decade in Women’s Liberation
BU Revolutionary Moment conference probes movement’s start BU Today By Susan Seligson 3-27-2014 Deborah Belle suspected that the time was right to take a scholarly look at the US women’s liberation movement from the 1960s to the 1970s and weigh the legacy of those times, but last year when she began organizing a BU conference […]
BU Research: A Riddle Reveals Depth of Gender Bias
What’s your answer to this question? BU Today By Rich Barlow 1-16-2014 Here’s an old riddle. If you haven’t heard it, give yourself time to answer before reading past this paragraph: a father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The son is rushed to the hospital; just as he’s […]
BU Now Offers Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Certificate
Goal: graduate-level interdisciplinary platform for gender studies BU Today By Irene Berman-Vaporis 10-08-2013 BU has launched a new certificate program in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (WGS) to provide an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students interested in these studies. “Across the nation, gender and sexuality are increasingly being integrated into all disciplines and departments,” says […]
Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street
CAS prof as scholar, activist, mentor BU Today By Leslie Friday 1-29-2013 With her delicate features, blue eyes, and blonde hair, Carrie Preston could double as a porcelain doll, but she hardly handles life with kid gloves. Halfway through an early morning lecture on The Invention of Heterosexuality and Homosexuality in an Introduction to Women’s […]
Points of Departure: I Found My Activism Here
Ariana Katz (CGS’10, CAS’12) and Sarah Merriman (CAS’12) BU Today By Susan Seligson 5-15-2012 As Sarah Merriman and Ariana Katz talk about their involvement with the BU Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism—Merriman is the organization’s events coordinator and Katz is codirector—Merriman draws a blank about when the two became friends.. “We don’t really know […]
Learning to Kneel
CAS prof researches Yeats through traditional Japanese dance BU Today By Amy Sutherland 11/10/2011 The central position in Noh Japanese dance has the dancer kneeling, with her bottom resting on her feet, hands palm down on thighs, and head slightly bowed. “It is torture,” says Carrie Preston. Your knees begin to throb against the wood […]
One Class, One Day: Women and Comedy
Did you hear the one about the husband who wanted to talk sex? BU Today By Rich Barlow 11-02-2011 Movie critics be damned: while many of them swooned last spring over Bridesmaids and its comedic take on a woman’s impending nuptials, Jillian McCarty says that the “whole pooping in the sink” scene grossed her out. […]
Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism Welcomes All
WRC’s new name a better fit BU Today By Leslie Friday 10-24-2011 There’s something about board meetings at the Women’s Resource Center that newcomers might not expect. Center codirector Ariana Katz (CAS’12) invites everyone to settle into a circle of overstuffed armchairs in the George Sherman Union basement. Then she asks them to give their […]