 Who Does She Think She Is?
New documentary explores the lives of artist-mothers
Who Does She Think She Is? is a feature-length documentary that explores the lives of five women who struggle to balance their lives as working artists and mothers. In the film, the women sustain the competing claims on their hearts despite financial challenges, institutional disinterest, and personal conflicts. Issues of work-home balance and gender inequities are central to the women's lives and the film's message. Produced by Mystic Artists in collaboration with the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), the documentary is being shown at film festivals and in limited theatrical runs across the country. WCW will host a screening on Saturday, October 4 at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA during which attendees can meet the filmmakers and two of the artists featured in the documentary. Other showings arranged by Mystic Artists include a screening at the Santa Monica Film Festival on September 20; a limited engagement run at the Angelika Film Center in New York City beginning October 17; and showings at the Baltimore Women's Film Festival in MD on October 25, the Savannah Film Festival in GA on October 28, and the St. Louis International Film Festival on November 15. View the trailer, learn more about the film's featured artists, obtain the complete schedule of screenings across the country, and pre-order a DVD via the documentary's website: www.whodoesshethinksheis.net.
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So Sexy So Soon
The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
 In an age of wild girls, bad boys, and the media's stepped-up assault on childhood, Diane E. Levin, Ph.D., and Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), have teamed up to help parents of children of all ages with their new book. Internationally recognized experts on child development and the impact of media on kids, the authors present poignant stories to demonstrate how kids internalize what they see and hear. They provide extensive practical strategies for counteracting disturbing messages.
Jean Kilbourne will offer a presentation at the WCW Cheever House in Wellesley, MA on October 7, 2008. The hardcover book is available for sale through the WCW Publications Office and can be purchased online or over the phone: 781.283.2510.
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Fall Lunchtime Seminar Series
Line-up features diverse disciplines and topics
The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) holds lunchtime seminars Thursday afternoons during the fall and spring semesters at the WCW Cheever House in Wellesley, MA. WCW scholars share their expertise and findings during these popular programs. Below is the fall 2008 line-up. Several programs will be recorded and audio files will be made available via the WCW website in late autumn. Adolescent Nutrition: Hunger and Dietary Diversity in TanzaniaPresented by: Lorraine Cordeiro, Ph.D., MPH -- October 23, 2008 The Return of Desire - Expanding Perspectives on Women's Sexual Intimacy Presentation and book signing by: Gina Ogden, Ph.D., LMFT -- October 30, 2008 Locating a Secret Problem: A Rising Pandemic of Sexual Violence in Elementary and Secondary SchoolsPresented by: Nan Stein, Ed.D. -- November 6, 2008 Elder Women's Education: Opportunities and Transformations Presented by: Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Ph.D. -- November 13, 2008 How the Conservative Right Distorts Social Science Research to Validate Its CausesPresented by: Jean Hardisty, Ph.D. -- November 20, 2008 Traumatic Stress among Resettled African Refugee Youth: Identifying Needs and Interventions in New Hampshire Presented by: Michelle V. Porche, Ed.D. and Lisa R. Fortuna, M.D., MPH -- December 4, 2008 In-dependent Identities: Rural Adolescent Girls' Narratives of Isolation and Connection Presented by: Erin E. Seaton -- December 11, 2008 |
New Programs Added to Online Audio Archive
Dynamic presentations highlight WCW expertise
 The Lunchtime Seminar Series at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) offers residents and visitors to the Greater Boston area the opportunity to hear, in person, about work by WCW researchers and program staff. Recordings of some past lunchtime seminars are available online now on the www.wcwonline.org/audioarchive page of the WCW website.
Recently archived selections from this past spring include:
Racial Identity Among European-American Adolescents: A Developmental Look at
White Privilege
Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D. and Jennifer Grossman, Ph.D.
In this talk, Jennifer Grossman and Linda Charmaraman, then postdoctoral research
fellows at WCW, discussed the importance of race for
White adolescents and how it differs across school and class contexts.
Localizing Women's Human
Rights in India, China, and the U.S.
Sally Engle Merry, Ph.D.
Sally Engle Merry, senior scholar at WCW,
presented a paper that explores the process of translating human rights into the
vernacular, arguing that as rights ideas travel and land, they do not stand
alone but form assemblages of various kinds with other social movements. This
comparative study showed how women's human rights join with existing social
justice ideas in China, India, and the U.S. It is based on an ethnography of two
women's NGOs in each country.
Gender-Based Legal
Reform in China: The Transformative Potential of Human Rights Norms and
Transnational Engagements
Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, J.D.
Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, senior advisor on international programs at WCW, examined recent revisions to the Women's Law in
China through the lenses of new developments in gender-based
lawmaking in Asia. She explored to what degree human rights norms and
transnational connections have informed those legal transformations and how much
of this is translated into actual practice.
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