Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 16, 2001

Volume 29, Number 22

'A Taste of Inequality' explores
issues still on feminist frontline

The ways and degree to which gender inequality continues to permeate American politics, economics and culture will be explored in "A Taste of Inequality," a six-part lecture series beginning March 21.

Speakers will address such issues as women in the new economy and labor force, the intersection of reproductive freedom and contemporary drug laws, and girls in education, among other topics. "A Taste of Inequality" seeks to demonstrate how feminism and feminist discourse still serve as appropriate methods of cultural analysis and progressive social change, according to organizers of the series, which is hosted by the Yale Women's Center.

The following is a schedule of lectures, with speakers and topics. Unless otherwise indicated, all events take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Each lecture will be followed by informal conversation and a reception at 5:30 p.m. at the Yale Women's Center, 198 Elm St.

Wednesday, March 21 -- "Women's Work in a 21st-Century Economy: The Dangers of Generalization," with Jacqueline Cooke and Mary C. Murphree, regional administrators of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor for Region 1 (New England) and Region 2 (New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico), respectively. Among the issues they will address are the impact of welfare reform and legislative issues surrounding women's fight for equal pay.

Monday, March 26 -- "Reproductive Freedom and the War on Drugs: From the Hospital to the Prison?," with Lynn M. Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a national campaign that works to ensure that women's drug use and health problems during pregnancy are treated as health and public welfare issues, rather than as criminal justice matters. Paltrow has been lead counsel in cases across the country challenging the prosecution of pregnant women who used drugs, and filed the first federal civil rights lawsuit challenging a policy of arresting pregnant women. She is co-counsel on the case in the United States Supreme Court.

Friday, April 6 -- 8 p.m. at the Yale Women's Center, "Slam Poetry: Poetry in Motion," with Alix Olson, a 1998 Slam Poetry Champion and 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, who recently graduated from Wesleyan University. Olson will perform and examine the ways in which poetry, art and performance can be vehicles for social, cultural and political change.

Monday, April 9 -- "Third-Wave Feminism and Transfeminism: Broadening the Movement," with Emi Koyama and Diana Courvant, coeditors of the upcoming "Transfeminism: An Anthology." The two women will discuss the integration of contemporary gender theory, transgendered and intersex people, and women of color in the feminist movement, among other topics. They will also talk about their experiences in the anti-domestic violence movement as members of Survivor Project, an organization addressing the needs of intersex and transgendered survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Monday, April 16 -- Time to be announced. "Art and Community," with Sheila DeBrettville, professor of graphic design at the Yale School of Art, who will illuminate the ways in which forms of visual art can be used to achieve political gains.

Monday, April 23 -- "Girls in Education: Why a Single-Sex Environment Works," with Ann Tisch, founder of the Young Women's Leadership School, an all-girls' public charter school in East Harlem, New York, and members of the school's junior class. Tisch will address gender inequalities in education and the benefits of a single-sex school, particularly for girls from lower socioeconomic brackets who have been in traditional urban public schools. Several members of the junior class will talk about their experiences in education.

"A Taste of Inequality" is cosponsored by the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, Consent, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Cooperative at Yale, the Office of Women in Medicine, the American Studies Program, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, the Student Labor Action Movement, Take Back the Night, the Teacher Preparation Program, the Yale Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Yale Law School and Yale Law Women.

For further information, send e-mail to josie.rodberg@yale.edu.

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