Women in Science

Week of March 25, 2013

In the News: Women in STEM

Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies presented its 2013 Women’s Leadership Forum on March 15. This year’s event focused on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and featured a keynote address by former NASA astronaut, Jan Davis, Ph.D. Women’s History Month at FAU concludes this week with a meditation workshop, a discussion on women and leadership, Pampered OWLS, and a symposium on “Boundaries, Bodies and Dissidence: Negotiating New Spaces of Feminist Knowledge.” For more information visit the Women’s History Month events page and a recent article published in the UP, FAU’s student magazine. A very thorough library guide on Women’s History Month is available here.

     

Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology
By Henry Etzkowitz et al. Cambridge University Press, 2000
Call Number: Q130 .E85 200 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)

Between Monsters, Goddesses, and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace
Edited by Nina Lykke & Rosi Braidotti. Zed Books, 1996
Call Number: Q158.5 .B48 1996

Building Inclusive Science: Connecting Women’s Studies and Women in Science and Engineering
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000
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Women’s History Month

Week of March 26, 2012

2012 Women’s History Month

In the News: This marks the last week of Women’s History Month. Below is a selection of recently-acquired titles in the area of women’s studies.

 

Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era
By Heather Marie Stur. Cambridge University Press, 2011
Call Number: DS559.8 .W6 S78 2011

Chick Lit and Postfeminism
By Stephanie Harzewski. University of Virginia Press, 2011
Call Number: PS374 .W6 H379 2011

Choices Women Make: Agency in Domestic Violence, Assisted Reproduction, and Sex Work
By Carisa R. Showden. University Of Minnesota Press, 2011
Call Number: HQ1206 .S497 2011

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Women in Business

March 14, 2011

Women in Business

In the News: FAU’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Adams Center for Entrepreneurship, and the President’s Diversity Committee present the Third Annual Women’s Leadership Forum on Friday, March 16, 2011. This year’s theme is Women, Business, and Power.

Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy
By Juliann Sivulka. Prometheus Books, 2009
Call Number: HF5813 .U6 S54 2009

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry
By Tiffany m. Gill. University of Illinois Press, 2010
Call Number: E185.86 .G494 2010

The Best-Kept Secret: Women, Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States
By Denise Benoit. Rutger University Press, 2007
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Suffrage

Library titles related to the latest headlines…

Week of August 23, 2010

Suffrage

In the News: In anticipation of the upcoming primary elections this Tuesday (8/24), we look at the Nineteenth Amendment which gave all American women the right to vote. Last week marked the 90th anniversary that the amendment was ratified by Congress. Now, go out and vote!

African American Women Voters: Racializing Religiosity, Political Consciousness and Progressive Political Action in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1964 through 2008
By Lisa Nikol Nealy. University Press of America, 2009
Call Number: JK1924 .N43 2009

Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign
By Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene. University of Illinois Press, 2008
Call Number: HQ1413 .P38 A23 2008

The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign, 1866-1928
By Harold L. Smith. Pearson/Longman, 2007
Call Number: HQ1236.5 .G7 S55 2007

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays
Edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Candida Smith. New York University Press, 2007 Call Number: HQ1413 .S67 A5 2007

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Women’s History Month – Videos on Women and Feminism

Week of March 15, 2010

In the News: Week 3 of Women’s History Month: Featuring powerful, controversial, timeless, and moving documentaries and narrative films on women and feminism. All are housed in the Boca Raton Media Center, first floor, west wing.


10 (Also known as Ten on Ten) (DVD)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Zeitgeist Video, 2004
Call Number: PN1997.2 .A122 2004

Abused (DVD)
Braverman Productions, 2007
Call Number: KF224 .G74 A28 2007

Āfsāīd: Offside (DVD)
Directed by Jafar Panahi. Sony Pictures, 2006
Call Number: PN1977.2 .A3373 2007

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Women’s History Month – Books

Week of March 8, 2010

In the News: It’s Women’s History Month! This week: Newly-acquired books related to women and feminist studies.

Also In the News: FAU has a new President (a woman!) Mary Jane Saunders, PhD, was recently named as the University’s sixth president.

Advice from the Top: What Minority Women Say about their Career Success
By Valencia Campbell.  Praeger Publishers, 2009.
Call Number: HD6054.3 .C36 2009

African American Women Voters: Racializing Religiosity, Political Consciousness, and Progressive Political Action in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1964 through 2008.
By: Lisa Nikol Nealy.  University Press of America, 2009.
Call Number: JK1924 .N43 2009

The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change
By Angela McRobbie. Sage, 2009
Call Number: HQ1155 .M37 2009

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Women and Social Movements – March Database of the Month

Women and Social Movements in the United States  Scholar’s Edition is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women’s history.   Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women’s history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.

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Let the Drama Back into your Life

New theater databases Asian American Drama, North American Women’s Drama, and Black Drama-Second Edition highlight collections of narratives from America’s minority groups; read full texts of plays, find information about playwrights and productions, and browse playbills and other related ephemera. Theatre in Video, containing more than 250 performances of the world’s leading plays, delivers the true drama experience as plays are created to be performed. North American Theatre Online, gives access to comprehensive reference materials covering all aspects of the Canadian and American theater. See detailed descriptions below.

Use North American Theatre Online to research upcoming FAU Department of Theatre and Dance productions.

This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies and more.  The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the play. Continue reading

In the News: Equity in the Workplace

Week of February 9, 2009

News Item: President Barack Obama recently signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 which makes it easier for workers, regardless of race, age, and gender, to get the pay they deserve. Also, the New York Times reports that women are likely to take the majority in the labor force for the first time in U.S. history. However, this has more to do with the current recession rather than gender equity as men have been on the receiving end of at least 82 percent of recent job losses.

 

Age Discrimination in the American Workplace: Old At a Young Age
By Raymond F. Gregory. Rutgers UP, 2001
Call Number: KF3465 .G74 2001

The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream
By Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005
Call Number: HD4904.25 .M638 2005

Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It
By Martha Burk. Scribner, 2005
Call Number: HA1426 .B845 2005
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