OpenPages features Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies, March 1
The next OpenPages event highlights Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies by Dr. Ann Braithwaite. The reading and discussion is Wednesday evening March 1, at 7 pm in the new first-floor lounge of UPEI’s Robertson Library.
OpenPages features local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, and what they want to share. The public is warmly invited to this evening. Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Ann Braithwaite is professor and coordinator of Diversity and Social Justice Studies at UPEI. She co-authored this new book with Dr. Catherine M. Orr, professor and chair of Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College.
Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies’ is a guide to engaging students in the challenges and pleasures of thinking critically about gender, race, and sex today. By focusing on “the everyday,” it speaks to the importance of students’ understanding the taken-for-granted circumstances of their daily lives. Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies explores the idea that “people are different, and the world isn’t fair,” and engages students in the inevitably complicated follow-up question: “now that we know, how shall we live?”
“This publication is of great significance for students from any faculty, even though it is most likely going to have the greatest impact in the Faculty of Arts,” said Dr. Nebojsa Kujundzic, dean of Arts at UPEI.
For more information, contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press, ispstaff@upei.ca, or Simon Lloyd at the library, ssloyd@upei.ca.
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