Women Studies  

I have various meetings during the week and hours at the reference desk; email at bamata@csus.edu or call 278-5672 to ask a question or request an appointment.

Monday,  Office 11am-4 pm Reference Desk 4-6 pm
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Wednesday Office 8:30-4:30 pm except 3-4 pm (24/7 reference)

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Gloria Steinem, a Woman Like No Other. By SARAH HEPOLA March 16, 2012 New York Times.
Over the last 40 years, Gloria Steinem has almost always been at the other end of the phone when some member of the news media has sought comment about a pressing issue involving women's rights, whether it was Roe v. Wade (''If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament,'' said Florynce Kennedy, a lawyer for Ms. Steinem in the 1970s), the tax problems that all but doomed the chances of the first woman to run for vice president on a major ticket (''What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.'') and even the presidency of George W. Bush (''There has never been an administration that is more hostile to women's equality, to reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right'').

Women, Money, and Power. Mundy, Liza.  Time. March 26 2012, v. 179, no. 12, pp 29-34.
If you want to see what the future looks like, consider the Hawkins family of Michigan, whose choices, if they don't already, may one day resemble your own.  The Hawkinses could have stepped out of a Hallmark card: back in the 1970s, Ford engineer Gary Hawkins supported six children while his wife Marcelle stayed home in suburban Detroit to raise them. Now grown, the Hawkins siblings can't tell you when they noticed that everything had changed, only that they have become a family of female breadwinners.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work".
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2011/