women's studies

Co-chair Sherene Razack, a distinguished professor and Penny Kanner endowed chair in women’s studies, pointed out that her group has published three reports on alleged racist and bias incidents against Arab American, Palestinian American and Muslim American students, staff and faculty at UCLA, including one in February, but has yet to meet with Frenk on the matters.

Or a course in Women’s Studies?

“Going full women’s studies professor today, are we?,” my wife comments appreciatively.

Seward Park’s studies section — which Wood explains is made up of sociology titles as well as “carceral studies, immigration studies, women’s studies, queer studies and race studies” — far outperforms the studies sections of its sister stores in Ravenna and Lake Forest Park.

One effect of this work was “increased awareness that health is political, that health is impacted by race and gender and class and sexuality,” said Sami Schalk, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin.