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Women's and Gender Studies

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  • Greetings from the Program Chair

  • Greetings from the Women's & Gender Studies Program! We have much to celebrate this fall, including the twentieth anniversary of the Alice Drum Women's Center and the fortieth anniversary of Title IX and the fortieth season of Women's Volleyball at F&M.

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  • Joint Research Focuses on Disney Images

  • This past academic year, Maggie Michaud ('12) and Professor Carol Auster conducted research that examined the portrayals of gender and race in Disney's marketing images.

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  • 2012 Grad Brings 'The Female Orgasm' to Campus

  • Brenda Segal, ('12), a WGS Joint Major, was instrumental in bringing "The Female Orgasm" to campus. This program fosters open discussion of topics related to female sexuality and pleasure.

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  • V-Day Features 'Vagina Monologues'

  • Members of the F&M and Lancaster community at large were treated to two performances of The Vagina Monologues in celebration of “V-Day” this past March.