Women's and Gender Studies UW-Green Bay News Posts

New UK study sheds light on sexual harassment | NBC26

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Mar 23, 2021

Associate Professor Christina Smith (Psychology and Women & Gender Studies) said there’s some psychology behind the issue. “Oftentimes when this happens by a man—and of course certainly not all men do this—but what you find is often it is men in groups with other men. It’s often this sort of expression of masculinity, and a…

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Melt This Frozen Heart: Whiteout and Written in the Stars

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Mar 4, 2021

Melt This Frozen Heart: Whiteout and Written in the Stars is Associate Professor Jessica Lyn Van Slooten’s latest installment in her monthly ‘Happy Hearts’ column on Cahsseffect.org. Van Slooten is a professor of English, Writing Foundations, Humanities, and Women’s & Gender Studies at UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus.

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Task Force | WHBY

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Feb 24, 2021

Ahead of their quarterly meeting in March, Wisconsin’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force member Kristin Welch joined Josh to explain the work of the Task Force and describe the impact of missing women and girls on their families and the broader community. She will be part of a virtual panel on this topic at…

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Seeking Love and Justice for All: The Genre Fiction of Alyssa Cole

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Feb 4, 2021

In this month’s Happy Hearts column for CAHSS and Effect, UW-Green Bay Prof. Jessica Lyn Van Slooten (English, Writing, and Gender Studies) discusses romance author, Alyssa Cole.

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CAHSS Launches ‘No Reservations’ Speaker Series beginning Feb. 10

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Sue Bodilly

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Feb 3, 2021

UW-Green Bay’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is filled with brilliant teachers, scholars, and creatives. The goal of the college is to provide an accessible forum for sharing bold, challenging, and even radical ideas. Scholars from across the college will do one talk each month on topics ranging from connecting through music to…

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Faculty note: Prof. Smith publication

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Sue Bodilly

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Jan 25, 2021

UW-Green Bay Associate Prof Christine Smith (Psychology and Women’s & Gender Studies), had a paper titled “Who is satisfied with life? Personality, cognitive flexibility, and satisfaction with life” published in the journal Current Psychology.

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Check Out This TED Talk On Why Romance Books Are Feminist – Women.com

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Dec 22, 2020

Most romance fans have heard people say that, as a genre, romance books are trashy, anti-feminist drivel. Of course, the vast majority of folks who say or think that have never even read a romance! Fans of the genre know nothing could be farther from the truth and this TED Talk on why romance novels…

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Video: Pestilence and Print History recorded event

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Sep 24, 2020

On September 17, 2020, a virtual public program called Pestilence and Print History organized by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Massachusetts took place. UW-Green Bay’s own assistant professor Sarah Schuetze (English) was one of the speakers during the event. In this panel presentation, scholars David Paul Nord, Assistant Prof. Sarah Schuetze, and Kelly Wisecup…

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Faculty note: Associate Prof. Reilly publishes book on the 1920s United States

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Sue Bodilly

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Aug 5, 2020

UW-Green Bay Associate Prof. Kimberley Reilly (DJS, History, Women’s and Gender Studies) has published a book, The Politics of Prosperity: Mass Consumer Culture in the 1920s, with Oxford University Press. The book is part of the “Debating American History” series, edited by David J. Voelker (UW-Green Bay) and Joel M. Sipress (UW-Superior), which allows students…

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Faculty note: Associate Prof. Van Slooten participated in live roundtable

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Emily Gerlikovski

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Jul 15, 2020

Associate Professor Jessica Lyn Van Slooten (English, Writing Foundations, Women’s and Gender Studies, Humanities) was an invited participant in a roundtable discussion, “The Role of Romance Scholarship: Why Does it Matter?” on Friday, July 10. This live roundtable was part of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Digital Showcase, featured participants from…

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