Dr. Kimberley Reilly — WGSC Consortium Member, Associate Professor/Chair of History, and Co-Chair of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at UW-Green Bay — has had her article “Abortion Rights and the ‘Quick Child’: The Misuse of History in Wisconsin’s Abortion Ban” published in Ms. Magazine. You can read the article on the Ms. Magazine website here. Congratulations …
Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, UW-La Crosse Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has been quoted in a New York Times article by Lisa Selin Davis, featured as part of the “In Her Words” section of the Times. Below are a few quotes from the article, featuring Dr. Vandenberg-Daves. Ironically, as women’s paid work hours increased …
Stephanie Rytilahti, WGSC Director and Co-Chair of the Caregiving Task Force, was featured in a Telegraph Herald article, “‘Balancing act’ for tri-state moms during pandemic.” An excerpt of what Dr. Rytilahti shared is below. Stephanie Rytilahti, director of University of Wisconsin System’s Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, said parents also have dealt with the constant …
UW System Wisconsin and Gender Studies Consortium Member and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Manitowoc Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies Jessica Van Slooten received the 2021 Faculty of the Year Award from the UWGB-Manitowoc campus. Professor Van Slooten has been a long-standing leader in the WGSC and previously participated in many critical efforts to grow …
Stephanie Rytilahti, WGSC Director and Co-Chair of the Caregiving Task Force, and Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, Department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, are featured in a Monterey Bay Parent article. “The Mother Load” discusses caregiving and gender equity. Read the piece here.
Lisa Hager, Caregiving Task Force member, UW-Milwaukee-Waukesha Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies, and Director of the LGBTQIA Resource Center, is the new co-editor of the academic journal Prose Studies. She also received the annual North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Donald Gray Article Prize for her article, “‘Female Husbands’ of the …
In a piece called “Labor Day: Caregivers in the home are taking on more work, new obligations due to the pandemic,” the Caregiving Task Force, including WGSC Director Stephanie Rytilahti and WGSC Board Member Women and Science Program Director Jenny Schuttlefield-Christus, have been cited in a piece published the Green Bay Press Gazette. The pandemic …
UW System Wisconsin and Gender Studies Consortium Co-chair and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Manitowoc Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies Jessica Van Slooten gave a TEDx Talk at UW-Green Bay, “Romance Novels Are Feminist.” Congratulations, Professor Van Slooten, on this exciting accomplishment!