Women’s Center

The Women’s Center is an educational resource center dedicated to raising awareness around women’s issues and gender identity. The center, a safe space open to all individuals from the campus community, is located in Enfield House and open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m to 5 p.m.

The Women’s Center provides a range of services and organizes a variety of educational programs. There is a lending library and a lounge that can be used by individuals and rented out to groups.

The Women’s Center is committed to:

 * Focusing on women’s issues and the impact of gender as a social construction. * Being inclusive of all social identities and being aware of how they intersect with gender. * Fostering a critical awareness of the impact of all forms of oppression including ablism, classism, ethnocentrism, gender oppression, heterosexism, racism, and sexism. * Advocating for the rights and needs of underrepresented groups on campus and taking action to address them. * Creating an educational environment that is accessible to all.

Events
Thursday October 16th 7:00 p.m. Tough Guise: Violence Media and the Crisis in Masculinity While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to examine systematically the relationship between images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.

Thursday October 30th 7:00 p.m. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats &amp; Rhymes This movie provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This documentary pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood.

Thursday November 13th 7:00 p.m. Tim Wise: On White Privilege In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well.

Thursday November 20th 7:00 p.m. Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, this groundbreaking documentary dissects the slanderous representation of Arabs throughout cinematic history, which has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent films to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters.