Women’s History month
Women in the Headlines
VOL. CLXII…No. 55,949 © Women’s Studies
Marge Piercy
Keynote Speaker
Poetry and fiction reading, followed by a
book signing and dessert reception
Thursday, March 21, 7pm Beeghly HallMcKay Auditorium
Co-sponsored with the Center for Judaic
and Holocaust Studies, College of Liberal
Arts and Social Sciences, and Dr. James
Dale Ethics Center.
Piercy is the author of seventeen novels
including The New York Times Bestseller
Gone to Soldiers and the Arthur C. Clark
Award for Best Science Fiction for He,
She, and It, as well as eighteen volumes
of critically-acclaimed poetry. She has
been a featured writer on Bill Moyers’
PBS Specials, Prairie Home Companion,
Fresh Air, The Today Show and radio
programs Air America, The Writers’
Almanac and Oprah and Friends. As an
activist, she has been a key player in the
women’s movement and in resistance
against the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Miss Representation
Film screening and discussion
Tuesday, March 19, 7pm Kilcawley
Center- Jones Room
Miss Representation is an awardwinning documentary film that explores
how the media’s misrepresentation of
women in positions of power and
influence. A discussion moderated by
Molly Toth and Jen Shima will follow the
film screening.
Half the Sky
Film screening and discussion Friday,
March 8, 2pm Coffee Hour, 3pm Film
and Discussion YWCA, 25 W. Rayen Ave,
Youngtown
March 2013
Printed in Youngstown, Ohio
Co-sponsored with Student Diversity
and the Center for International Studies
and Programs
The linked problems of sex trafficking
and forced prostitution, gender-based
violence, and maternal mortality
needlessly claim one woman every 90
seconds. Across the globe, oppression is
being confronted, and real, meaningful
solutions are being fashioned through
health, education, and economic
empowerment for women and girls.
Selections from the film will be shown
and YSU faculty, staff, students and
others will share stories about ways in
which women from across the world
have overcome adversity.
“Women Hold Up Half the Sky”
Women Against Violence
Everywhere
Panel
Friday, March 22, 12-2pm
Kilcawley Center-Jones Room
Malinda Gavins from Sojourner House
Domestic Violence Services, Lynn Bilal
from the Rape Crisis and Counseling
Center, and Johanna Slivinske from
YSU’s Department of Social Work &
PsyCare will participate in a panel about
issues related to rape, domestic
violence, verbal abuse, and recovery
from trauma. Light refreshments will be
served.
Too Fast to Be a Woman?
Film Screening followed by a panel
Tuesday, March 26, 7pm
Kilcawley Center-Jones Room
After Caster Semenya achieved her
dream of winning the 800m World
Championship in 2009, rumors of a
failed gender test spread. While
international lawyers and eminent
scientists were thrashing out what it
means to be a woman, the 19 year old
at the center of the storm was only
concerned about her desire to run.
Following the film, YSU track coach
Katrina Brumfield, YSU professor of
Free
political Science Cryshanna Jackson and
YSUnity’s (the LGBTQIA group at YSU)
Brian Wells will facilitate a discussion
about the role that gender plays in
competitive sports.
Thank God There’s Silvio!
Natural Born Bunga Bunga Babes and
the Representation of Women in the
Italian Media
Lecture
Wednesday, March 25, 11-12pm
Kilcawley Center-Gallery Room
Eva Rus is a Fulbright Scholar educated
at the University of Padua, Italy (B.A.)
and at the University of Birmingham, UK
(Ph.D.), whose research currently
focuses on contemporary feminist
autobiographical practice and body
representation in both written text and
the visual arts. Her presentation will
concentrates on the role of Italy’s media
tycoon/former Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi in contributing to the overexposure of media images of
infantilized, sexually subservient,
decorative feminine types.
“Are You Mom Enough?”
Panel
Friday, March 29, 5-7pm
Kilcawely Center-Gallery Room
Midwife Rachel, Ob-Gyn Joni Canby and
Karen Kotrba, author of a collection of
poems about nurse-midwives from the
early twentieth century, She Who is Like
a Mare, will discuss issues related to
maternity, early motherhood, and
more. Appetizers will be served.
Children are welcome!!!
All events are free and open to the
public.
For more information, contact the
Women’s Studies Program at
wstudies@ysu.edu or (33) 941-2320.
Event parking is available at the Lincoln
Deck and lot M24, next to McDonald’s
on Fifth Avenue.