university of southern california

c e n t e r f o r f e m i n i s t r e s e a r c h

& g e n d e r s t u d i e s p r o g r a m

e v e n t s 2 0 0 2 – 2 0 0 3

Peggy Shaw “Queer Performance Cabaret” |

Siona Benjamin “Finding Home and the Dilemma of Belonging” | Doe Mayer “Women Connect! Using Media and Technology for Health Promotion with Women NGOs in Africa” Velina Hasu Houston “Growing a New Play” |

Hilary Schor on gender and curiosity | David Cruz “Litigating Sex” | Nikki Senecal & Regina Lark “Research as a Tool for Progressive Social Change” | Alice Echols “Gender, Crossover, and Authenticity in Popular Music” | Lauren Greenfield on her new volume of photographs“Girl Culture” | Marsha Kinder on recent work from the Labyrinth Project | Felicia Lee “Social Networks and Tenure” | Kamala Visweswaran “The Story That Comes After” | Rachel Lee “Where’s My Parade? Margaret Cho and the Asian American Body in Space” | Gayle Rubin “Sex and the City: Gay Leathermen, Urban Location, and Sexual Communities in San Francisco” | Natalie Bookchin on her new interactive project “Metapet” | Jane Curry on the history of women in science |

Wan Yan-Hai “AIDS and Sexuality in China” | Anne Pellegrini “Sexual Freedom,

Religious Freedom: Revisiting Bowers v. Hardwick; Fadwa El-Guindi on the semiotics of the veil | Anne Benvenuti “Sexing the Brain” | Nancy Solomon “Title IX: Fact and Fiction” | Paula McGee and Mike Messner on Title IX |

Reno “Rebel Without A Pause”

Special Programs 2002-03: “Feminist Ethnographies,” a series co-curated with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women; Title IX 30^th Anniversary Speaker Series; the 12^th Annual USC/UCLA Graduate Student “Thinking Gender” Conference

CFR Cosponsorships 2002-03: Toby Miller , “The New Economy, the Creative Industries, and Consumption,“ Judith Levine “Crimes of Passion: Statutory Rape and the Ambiguities of Sexual Consent”; GUERRILLA GIRLS ; Women in Higher Education luncheon; Academics and Activism graduate conference; Association of English Graduate Students conference;

Fashion and Transgression exhibition

partnering organizations during 2002-03 include the Center for Law, History, and Culture; the Women’s Student Assembly; the Gay, Lesbian, Bi, & Transgender Student Assembly; USC Center for Women and Men; the Student Arts Initiative; the Graduate Student Feminist Network; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; Rainbow Floor; USC Sociology Department; USC English Department; USC Anthropology Department; USC Program in American Studies & Ethnicity; Fisher Gallery; USC Art History Department; USC New Feminist Council; USC Progressive Facully Coalition