Thanks to the staff and friends of the Women's Center for another successful year. Congratulations to our graduates; please come back and visit. For those returning next year, we look forward to seeing you! We seek improvement through critical feedback and suggestions. Please direct your feedback to deirdre.rosenfeld@mnsu.edu. Also, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, please email deirdre.rosenfeld@mnsu.edu with "remove" in the subject line.
Marketing and Publicity Intern Position Opening in the Women's Center for 2005-2006
Application deadline is Friday, June 3, 2005.
The Women's Center seeks a self-directed undergraduate student to manage program-related publicity and general departmental marketing. This position will offer the student a chance to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes in a number of areas including collaboration, written and verbal communication, feminist work and leadership styles, independent research, and computer skills.
See the full position description.
Submit cover letter, resume and contact information for two references (name, title, address, phone number and email address) to Deirdre Rosenfeld, Director, Women's Center, 218 Centennial Student Union, Mankato, MN 56001 or deirdre.rosenfeld@mnsu.edu. Application deadline is Friday, June 3, 2005. For more information call 507-389-6146 or refer to our website at www.mnsu.edu/wcenter.
LA-MANO, Inc. and the Greater Mankato Area Ethnic Council is hosting the Women's Foundation of Minnesota and The White House Project in which we invite you to attend this informational meeting on funding opportunities for women and girls.
Vote, Run, Lead, a collaboration of the Women's Foundation and The White House Project to increase the number of women voters and legislators in our state.
Madison East Center Community Room,
1400 Madison Ave, Mankato, MN 56001
May 12, 2005
11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Will Be Provided
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! Please be sure to let us know you are coming due to the lunch count. You can RSVP by calling LA-MANO, Inc. at 507-344-8361 or send an email to lamano@charterinternet.net. Want to know more but you can't come to the meeting? Visit the Women's Foundation web site; learn what other women's groups around the state are doing, and download guidelines and applications so you can apply!
www.wfmn.org
The first article by Hannah Miyamoto, graduate student in Women's Studies, in a major academic journal has just appeared. The article is an essay reviewing five books, and has been published by the National Women's Studies Association Journal. Hannah reviewed these books:
Butler, Amy E., 1965- Two paths to equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith.
Nielsen, Kim E. Un-American womanhood: antiradicalism, antifeminism, and the first Red Scare.
Benowitz, June Melby. Days of discontent: American women and right-wing politics, 1933-1945.
Figart, Deborah M. Living wages, equal wages: gender and labor market policies in the United States.
Weigand, Kate, 1965- Red feminism: American communism and the making of women's liberation.
Here is the citation for her article:
Miyamoto, Hannah. "Politics, Economics, and American Women after the Nineteenth Amendment." NWSA Journal, Volume 17, no. 1, Spring 2005. pp. 226-32.
This journal is available in Memorial Library, Periodicals section, call number HQ1101.N3.
The article is also available online through Project Muse at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/toc/nwsa17.1.html
The publication of this article is a credit to Hannah and the quality of our Women's Studies program. Great work, all around!
