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GENDER in FICTION...

FICTION in GENDER

A Turtle Moon Campus Read-In

To learn more about the event click here

To see a schedule of Turtle Moon Campus Read-In events click here

From TJ's Turtle Moon Freewrite Fest -- to read a selection of spontaneous audience responses to passages from Turtle Moon click here

FEEDBACK Faculty Reading Group Conversation on Turtle Moon click here

Click here to learn more about the book and read a review If you have further questions contact Twila Papay (tpapay@rollins.edu) A Winterim Course based on Alice Hoffman's Turtle Moon will also be offered: INT 255A - Murder, Magic, and a Lovelorn Angel. Students will shape a campus-wide, Gender Matters Read-in of Alice Hoffman's short Florida novel, Turtle Moon. Here we see the intersection of troubled lives: a rebellious teenage boy, a young mother hiding her baby, a confused divorcee, a teenage girl with doubts about college, an unhappy cop, and the unexpected angel lurking in a gumbo-limbo tree. Enter the murderers. After discussing the novel, students will spend time shaping a campus-wide Rollins Read-in, designing brief advertising materials and planning their own contribution to spring term campus conversations. Credit: Two (2) semester hours. Meeting Dates: Mon.-Fri., Jan. 7-11, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon and 1:30-3:00 p.m. daily. For more information on the Winterim Course click here FEEDBACK Student Evaluations of INT 255A click here

DON'T CANCEL THAT CLASS !!

In conjunction with A year of Gender Matters

 

If you are thinking of canceling a class, please consider calling the Residential Life Office to schedule a presentation on one of the gender-related topics listed below instead. All staff possess a Master's Degree in Student Affairs, Higher Education or Leadership Development.

For more information click here

"Tough Guise"
A video by Jackson Katz on gender & sexuality

Access discussion resources:

Pre-video Questionnaire click here

Post-video Discussion Questions click here

"Tough Guise" Teachers Guide: http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaGenderCulture/ToughGuise/studyguide/html
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaGenderCulture/ToughGuise/studyguide/pdf

The video presents issues related to violence and sexism in the context of the different social influences and pressures men experience in American society. Discussion facilitated by Ray Rogers & Shannon Andreas.

October 15 & October 17, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Patrick Donahue's RCC Class

October 22, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: GLBTA Alliance, Voices for Women, Pinehurst

November 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m
A Week of Difference

January 28, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Bruce Aufhammer's Holt School Class

FEEDBACK Selected session click here

2002 Intersession Courses

Registration requests are due in the Office of Student Records by 5:00 p.m., Friday, November 16.

INT 255A - Murder, Magic, and a Lovelorn Angel. Students will shape a campus-wide, Gender Matters Read-in of Alice Hoffman's short Florida novel, Turtle Moon. Here we see the intersection of troubled lives: a rebellious teenage boy, a young mother hiding her baby, a confused divorcee, a teenage girl with doubts about college, an unhappy cop, and the unexpected angel lurking in a gumbo-limbo tree. Enter the murderers. After discussing the novel, students will spend time shaping a campus-wide Rollins Read-in, designing brief advertising materials and planning their own contribution to spring term campus conversations. Credit: Two (2) semester hours. Meeting Dates: Mon.-Fri., Jan. 7-11, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon and 1:30-3:00 p.m. daily.

FEEDBACK Student Evaluations of INT 255A click here

INT 255B- Introduction to Leadership. Introduces the study of leadership and social change from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Explores leadership in relation to individuality, group dynamics, and community building. Includes discussions on gender and race differences in leadership styles/preferences. Through readings, case studies, reflection, and small-group sessions, students will examine leadership as an inclusive, relational process through which individuals, organizations, and systems create social change. Meets Jan 7-11 (1-5pm). Contact Cara Meixner at cmeixner@rollins.edu for further information.

ENROLLMENTS ARE LIMITED.

FEEDBACK Evaluation of INT 255C click here

1. Independent Writing Project: 2001: A Writing Odyssey.

We are currently in the tenth month of a year-long course I'm teaching called 2001: A Writing Odyssey. This course started off with 14 women, but we're down to 11 now. The idea was for each student to spend a year working on a long project--a book, a collection of stories or essays, a family history. I wanted to work with a group of dedicated women who needed time and support to sustain a larger writing project than is possible in a regular semester course. So we began in December of 2000 and have met the second Saturday of every month all year. We gather in Woolson House at 9:30 a.m. and light a candle to call the muse to us. We eat food and drink tea lovingly prepared by a member of the class. We sit quietly and open ourselves to our deepest creative instincts. We create a space for each one of us to recognize and act upon her unique creative potential. These meetings have been nothing short of revolutionary for all of us. Very early on, the course took a turn I hadn't quite expected. While our central focus was and remains putting together a long work of some type, the course has evolved into a study of creativity and how we have been taught (or not taught) about the creative process. We have learned that our creative capabilities have been grossly hindered, even stifled in a variety of ways in this society--not the least of which is our own fears. We have read books, had discussions, completed exercises, listened to guest speakers, and all along we have griped, complained, cried, explored, probed, analyzed, rooted out, supported, and instructed each other as we step into our creative work in the world. We have two more meetings to go, and in December, our last meeting, we will reflect on what we have learned about our creative spirits, and we'll report on the status of our creative work. We have all been changed.

It's been the most fascinating teaching experience I've ever had, and in fact, my own project has changed in the course of the year because of my work with these women. I am now writing a series of essays that will chronicle our monthly meetings, essays which explore the various stages we've been through and the insights we've gained from our sessions. I'll be on sabbatical next fall and hope to finish this collection then. The collection is called When the Teacher is Ready, Students Will Appear. I love it!

2. Independent Writing Projects: Intellectual Autobiography

Out of the Odyssey course, another project has emerged. This is the Intellectual Autobiography project I spoke about with you last spring. This project will be the focus of our creative work in 2002. I will lead an editorial team in soliciting manuscripts about transformative learning experiences of Holt students. We will solicit, read, select, and then edit manuscripts that will make up a collection of essays about women's educational experiences in the Holt School. I have received two grants to support this project, one from ACHE, and one from the Christian A. Johnson Institute. We are hoping this collection will be ready for publication by May 2003. It promises to be an important publication.

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Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program

The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program is a gender violence prevention and education program based at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. The multi-racial, mixed gender MVP team is the first large-scale attempt to enlist high school, collegiate and professional athletes in the effort to prevent all forms of men's violence against women. Utilizing a unique bystander approach to gender violence prevention, the MVP Program views student-athletes and student leaders not as potential perpetrators or victims, but as empowered bystanders who can confront abusive peers. Program participants develop leadership skills and learn to mentor and educate younger boys and girls on these issues.

http://www.sportinsociety.org/mvp.html

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Diversity a Tool for Renewal and Development at Rollins College

Upcoming Seminar for Faculty

Friday, September 21, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., Bieberbach-Reed Conference Room, Cornell Campus Center

Diversity is and has been a persistent and complex issue for American colleges since the founding of the earliest institutions of higher learning in the United States. This issue reflects our ethos as Americans, our ability to engage in the contentiousness of our differences and from these differences to draw our strength as a nation.

The Rollins Diversity Committee, in collaboration with the Gender Matters initiative, invites you -- members of the Rollins College faculty -- to engage with your colleagues in discussion about the meaning and implementation of diversity at Rollins:

• Compare Rollins' Diversity efforts with other colleges.
• Find out how your colleagues have reacted to past diversity experiences, what they think about what should be done in the future.
• Share experiences and problem solve together using cross-cultural approaches.

Mitchell Karp, M.S.O.D., Esq. and Shirley Munoz, Ed.D. will lead the seminar. Mitchell Karp is the founder and lead consultant of Karp Consulting Group, Inc. (KCG). Shirley Munoz is a senior consultant at KCG. Both are adjunct faculty to the Management Development and Human Resources Programs at the Cornell University NYS School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

It's going to be engaging. It's going to be intellectually challenging. It's going to be good. Don't miss it.

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Voices for Women

The purpose of our organization is to educate the persons of Rollins College by working with issues concerning the oppression of women, women's accomplishments, feminism, and other women's issues. In the past, Voices has been responsible for a wide range of fun and educational programming involving:

• The "F" Word: a group discussion and debate surrounding feminism and the issues concerning it
• Body Image Week: Full week of programs for consciousness raising concerning the male and female body, including:
  • The Body in the Media
  • Angus
  • Discussions with Wendi Sanford, editor of Our Bodies, Our Selves
• World Aids Day
• Black History Month
• Women's History Month
  • Expression Session Coffee House
  • Take Back the Night March and Talk Back
• Sexuality Awareness Week
  • The Celluloid Closet
• Discussion with Rebecca Walker (lecturer, author, actress, and activist for the Third Wave Women's Movement)

Anyone who is interested in Voices for Women is welcome. Feel free to contact us.

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Gender Matters Poster Contest

Deadline: October 1, 2001

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DESIGN COMPETITION

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Students are invited to submit poster designs for A Year of Gender Matters, a community-wide initiative during Rollins' 2001-2002 academic year. Its aim is to bring students, faculty, administrators, and staff together to address the way in which gender relations affect our collective campus life. Programs will include speakers, panels, films, and social activities.

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An honorarium of $100 will be awarded to the artist of the selected design. Other finalists' entries will be displayed in a special exhibition.

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SPECIFICATIONS

(1) Main poster - 11" X 14"

may be 4-color, full bleed

must incorporate Gender Matters logo (contact lkyle@rollins.edu for file)

must incorporate or leave space for Gender Matters URL (www.rollins.edu/gendermattersyear), Student Activities posting approval, & the following text:

A Year of Gender Matters

Rollins College

2001-2002

(2) Border design for individual event publicity shells - 8-1/2" X 11"

to incorporate elements from the main poster design

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Artwork must be camera-ready or digital.

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Entries must be received by October 1, but we ask that you register your interest in participating in the Gender Matters design competition by emailing lkyle@rollins.edu.

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Questions? 407-646-1540 / lkyle@rollins.edu

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September 20, 5-7 pm, Faculty Club

A faculty discussion sponsored by Johnson Institute for Effective Teaching as part of Faculty Reading Community series - designed by Sandy Chadwick - led by Twila Papay and Dave Kurtz. Evening includes a light supper provided by Johnson Institute to those who RSVP.

• Please RSVP to Sandra Chadwick, Box 2636, 628-6353, schadwick@rollins.edu
• Please send queries, suggestions, comments to Twila Yates Papay, Box 2655, x 2191, tpapay@rollins.edu

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Jackson Katz presents "More than a Few Good Men: A Lecture on American Manhood & Violence Against Women."

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday, February 20, 8:00 p.m., Bush Science Center Auditorium
Monday, September 17, 9:00 a.m. Alfond Sports Center

Jackson Katz has been one of America's leading anti-sexist male activists in the 1980s and 1990s. He has been lecturing on college campuses for the past decade and has published numerous academic articles on topics including white masculinity, advertising, feminism, violence, juvenile prisons, sports, and media. He has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs coast to coast, including Good Morning America, Montel Williams, and ABC News 20/20.

More than a Few Good Men is the acclaimed program that inspires men and women to confront one of the most serious problems facing college students at the turn of the century: men's violence against women. The subjects he covers include rape, sexual harassment, abuse in college dating relationships, and other forms of gender-based discrimination and violence. Traditionally, these issues have been considered "women's issues." More than a Few Good Men, by contrast, focuses on the lives and attitudes of boys and men. In a provocative presentation that interposes irreverent humor with unpleasant reality, Jackson Katz stimulates dialogue between the sexes by helping to illuminate how the problems of individual women and men are linked to larger social forces

Other highlights:

Director of the United States Marine Corps gender violence prevention program

Co-creator of the video Tough Guise:Media Images and the Crisis in Masculinity

Faculty Workshop: "Gender Issues in the Classroom"

September 14, October 19, November 16

Drs. Lynda Glennon and Carol Lauer conducted a workshop on dealing with gender issues in the classroom. Seven faculty members attended the three sessions. Participants discussed issues of feminist pedagogy and general skills for critically reading text for subtle or not so subtle gender content. Each participant agreed to do a unit in their ongoing courses that dealt with gender issues within their disciplines, and the group discussed and critiqued the proposed units. Read more.

FEEDBACK "Gender Issues in the Classroom" click here

Explore the issues raised by A Year of Gender Matters as they were contemplated, and debated, in the Rollins College student newspaper, The Sandspur, including Elizabeth Lukos's series of essay-articles.