Women Take Center Stage During Women's History Month
Feb. 20, 2008
Events
With an eye toward empowering women, Anne Arundel Community College’s Women’s Institute is gearing up to celebrate Women’s History Month with a host of films, exhibits and activities.
View Women's History Month Calendar (PDF)
View Women's Institute Film Series Spring 2008 (PDF)
The month kicks off with the exhibit, “Socialization of Gender: Photos and Essays,” from March 4-21 in the Pascal Center for Performing Arts Gallery. Artists will talk about their photos with Heather E. Rellihan, assistant professor of women’s studies, from 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 12. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.
The institute’s film series features two sets of March movies and an April movie.
From 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 6, three short films on body image will be shown in Humanities Building Room 112:
In “Belly: Overcoming Bulimia” by Kim Izzo and Cere Marsh, Katherine Laing discovers an art form that changed her body image -- belly dancing -- after hating her body and struggling against bulimia for 10 years.
“Mirror Mirror,” by Jan Krawitz, captures women revealing their own feelings when they look in the mirror, creating a provocative look at the relationship between the idealized body and real ones.
“Black Women On: The Light, Dark Thang,” by Celeste Crenshaw and Paula Caffey, features African-American women relating moving stories about their own struggles with the meaning of skin color – from light to dark – and the history that created a “caste system” in U.S. society.
From 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 13, two films on the woman trade will be shown in the Center for Applied Learning and Technology Room 107:
“Say I Do: Mail Order Brides,” by Arlene Ami, gives the stories of three Filipino women who leave home and marry men in the United States in the hopes of earning enough money to help their poverty-stricken families in the Philippines.
“Remote Sensing: Sex Trafficking” is by Ursula Biemann. Examining the reasons women are vulnerable to the international sex trade, this film is a “searing account” of who benefits most from these networks of modern-day slavery.
The April film, “Wafa Idriss: The First Female Palestinian Suicide Bomber,” plays at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the Center for Applied Learning and Technology Room 107. Idriss went from being a nurse to a suicide bomber. The film provides background on the situation between the Israelis and Palestinians. Both Wafa’s family members and Jewish people who lost loved ones in the bombing are interviewed.
If book discussions are more your style, pick up a copy of “Talking from 9 to 5,” Deborah Tannen’s influential 1995 book about men and women communicating – and miscommunicating – at work. Then bring a brown-bag lunch and join in a discussion of the book from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in Truxal Library’s Room 302. Susan Kilgard, Ph.D., AACC associate professor of communications, will lead the group.
Two special presentations during Women’s History Month include: Veronika Martin discussing “Well-Behaved Women Rarely Change the World: When Justice is Illegal” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, in Florestano Building Room 101; and a performance of Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, in the Pascal Center for Performing Arts, directed by Rellihan and Tera Mikula, Ph.D., also an assistant professor of women’s studies.
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