Lawrence University Gender Studies

09/19/2021

…the woman who wore pants?

Her home had been burgled, and Helen Hulick was called to testify in court as a witness. But it was 1938, and she came dressed in slacks. The judge was outraged, refused to let her testify, and told her to come back in a dress. She didn’t; she came back in pants again. He warned her he would find her in contempt of court if she did it a third time. She did, and he did. But the third time she also brought a lawyer who managed to get her out of jail (where she wore a denim prisoners’ dress) fairly quickly with a vow to appeal her sentence. Which they did, and which they won. Beebe also had major professional achievements, but for today, let’s just revel in her be-slacked chutzpah.

09/16/2021

what a brave woman.

September 16 is Mildred Fish-Harnack Day in Wisconsin, and if you don't know that is, you're not the only one. Despite the courageousness of her life's work, fighting the N***s as a founder of the Red Orchestra, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany, much of her story has been lost over time. In....

01/12/2021

Actually, it's even worse than that: Technically, women accounted for more than 100% of all U.S. jobs lost last month.

12/12/2020

for those who have read Cisneros' Guadalupe:

11/24/2020

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Professor Sarah Gilbert is one of the women behind the University of Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine, which according to the BBC will be up to 90 percent effective in preventing patients from developing covid-19 symptoms. But like most women who are pushed out of STEM fields of work or simply never e...

10/12/2020

For , we stand with our Native sisters. Native women earn approximately $0.60 cents on the dollar of White, non-Hispanic men. And more than 4 in 5 Native women are victims of violence. We will continue fighting until there’s equality for ALL women. 🎨 repost: The Better Normal

08/27/2020

The Fox Valley 19th Amendment Centennial Coalition produced this high-energy video in honor of the amendment’s 100th anniversary. Our virtual celebration rec...

07/26/2020

07/25/2020

Women rarely received credit for their creative work in Colonial America. But with a new album, one scholar is reviving the works of the women who lived and composed at the Ephrata Cloister.