October 2009
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Promoting Women's Rights and Leadership
Recent projects build collaborations across the globe
 Women's Leadership Network: Women's Political, Public, and Economic Participation in the Muslim World
One of the newest global initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) focuses on developing a network of women leaders in countries where Islam is a state religion, or where there is a large community living under Islamic law. Scholarly, personal narratives by women on the network steering committee will be published by WCW and will serve as a platform for advocacy and the sharing of strategies to bolster women's political, public, and economic participation around the world. Learn more.
U.S.-Saudi Women's Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Earlier in the summer, WCW partnered with Babson College, a neighboring college, and welcomed
students from Dar Al Hekmaall, a private, all-women's college in Saudi Arabia, to a special, two-week course on social entrepreneurship. This project, funded by the U.S. Department of State in a cooperative agreement with ICF International, LLC and Babson College, offered WCW the opportunity to build our partnerships and learn from and with colleagues in Saudi Arabia. Learn more.
 Gender & the Law in China Expert Group Consultation
Last
month, WCW welcomed a dozen leading
gender and law scholars from China to a dynamic consultation with some
of their U.S. counterparts. This week-long meeting, made possible by
The Ford Foundation, was designed to generate meaningful sharing of
resources and the exchange of ideas, laws and legal theories, and
practices aimed at informing new and emerging gender and law policy in
China. Learn more.
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Young Women and Violence Panel
Reservations underway for 2nd annual NYC luncheon
 The evidence is everywhere we turn--in our newspapers, on television, in
video games, on the Internet, in the lyrics of popular songs, in
government reports, and in courtrooms.The incidence of sexual
harassment, sexual violence, and exploitation of girls and young women
is reaching pandemic proportions. Here. In America. Not "someplace
else." Our young people are at risk. Laws, public policy, and education
haven't seemed to stem the tide.
Panelists Linda Fairstein, J.D., Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., Joyce M. Roché, MBA, and Nan Stein, Ed.D., will offer, from their different perspectives, their
knowledge of what's working - and not - and will share ideas for
intervention and prevention to help girls and young women. Linda Wertheimer will offer remarks.
The luncheon will be held Tuesday, November 10th at The Yale Club of New York. Learn more at www.wcwonline.org/nycevent. Reservations are required and the program is expected to sell out--register online today (or by November 2nd).
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Upcoming Programs Featuring WCW Scholars--Join us!
Webinar: Your Head is connected to your... Body!
October 21, 2009, Online -- Presenter: Amy Banks M.D.
Webinar introducing participants to an integrative
look at the human body, examining both ways that American culture can begin the
disconnection of mind from body as well as many ways to shift
brain chemistry by working with the body. Learn more.
Urban High School Students Developing Identities in Science
October 22, 2009, Wellesley, MA -- Presenter: Corinne McKamey, Ed.D.
WCW Lunchtime Seminar Series Presentation focusing on understanding students' identity formation--in their own words--in relation to science as a way to understand how and in what ways many women and
people of color exclude themselves/are excluded from
pursuing careers in the "hard sciences." Learn more.
How Connections Heal: Founding Concepts/Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural
Theory and Practice
Friday-Sunday, October 23-25, 2009, Wellesley, MA -- Presenters: JBMTI Faculty
Annual fall training, intensive institute from the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at WCW, held over three days for clinicians and other professionals at all stages in their professional lives. Learn more.
Jean Baker Miller Memorial Lecture
Friday, October 23, 2009, Wellesley, MA -- Presenter: Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.
The 3rd annual Jean Baker Miller Memorial Lecture featuring the author of So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, also a senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women. Learn more.
Learning from Women around the Globe: 35 Years of Research & Action
Sunday, October 25, 2009, Weston, CT -- Presenter: Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D.
A special "Day to Make a Difference" benefit event,
to learn about and support
35 years of Research and Action by the Wellesley Centers for Women. Learn more.
See full line-up of upcoming programs at www.wcwonline.org/calendar.
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Preview Newest Issue of Women's Review of Books
 Peruse the table of contents and preview select articles from the newest issue of Women's Review of Books,
including a review by Xujun Eberlein of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang.
Also featured and available online are reviews of:
Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference
by Heather Jacobson;
and Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood; both reviews by Martha Nichols;
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
by Catherine S. Ramírez; review by Miroslava Chávez-Garcí;
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
by Mia Bay and Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching
by Paula Giddings; reviews by Sherrilyn A. Ifill.
Read and post comments on the publication's new blog: WOMEN = BOOKS.
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If you'd like more information about the Wellesley Centers for Women, I invite you to visit our website at www.wcwonline.org.
Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Wellesley Centers for Women
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