events 2000-2001

Nelly Stromquist "Knowledge and Power in Action: Educational Strategies in Feminist Politics" | Carole Shammas "Female-Led Reform and the Institutional U-Turn in Welfare Policy Circa 1900" | Natania Meeker "Libertine Times: Diderot, Women and the Rise of a Gendered Modernity" | Susan McCabe "H.D. and her Cinematic Poetics" | Women's Yiddish Voices Yiddishkayt, Los Angeles | Anita Gradin on her role as an EU commisioner, women and social policy | Sharon Gillerman "A Muscular Mascher: The Career of a Jewish Strongman in Post WWI Europe and America" | HSUING Ping Chen "The Women's Movement and Feminist Scholarship in Post-War Taiwan" | Bill Handley "Willa Cather's Western Marriages and the Question of Nation Building" | Sarah Hrdy "Wet Nursing, Day Care and the Debates over 'Mother Love': What They Do and Don't Tell Us about Maternal Natures"

special programs 2000-2001:Gender in International Relations | The 10th Annual USC/UCLA Graduate Student "Thinking Gender" Conference

CFR co-sponsorships 2000-2001: party honoring Velina Hasu Houston at the premiere of "Ikebana (living flowers)" | Hanna Diamond "Revisiting the Liberation: French Women and the Second World War" | Regina Schwartz "Murder and Sacrifice (and Othello)" | Rana Husseini "Crimes of Honor: Gender and Human Rights" | Carol Cohn "Female Soldiers, Fightsuits, and Four Mile Runs: 'Standards' Discourse and Male Officers' Resistance to Women in the Military" | Women in Higher Education luncheon | Simona Sharoni and Laurence McKeown "Gender, Conflict and Power: A Workshop" | Lillian Rubin "Mothers, Daughters and the Crucible of Aging: The Story of a Jewish Family" | Association of English Graduate Students Conference

partnering organizations during 2001-2002 include the Women's Student Assembly; USC Center for Women and Men; the Graduate Student Feminist Network; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; USC English Department; USC Center for International Studies; The USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life; USC School of Theatre; Pasadena Playhouse; Human Rights Watch; Yiddishkayt Los Angeles