Beyond Female or Male: A Celebration of Gender

Monday, March 8 through Thursday March 11, the Gender Awareness Committee of Dominican College will present "Beyond Female or Male: A Celebration of Gender".

This forum aims to expand the scope of National Women's History Month by infusing a gender perspective that acknowledges the roles of men and women towards promoting respect and appreciation for all individuals. Through invited featured events, teach-ins, films, and student conference contributions, the focus will be on people who have demonstrated leadership and contributed in scholarly, artistic, and/or activist ways on a local, national, and global level.

Dominican College's Inaugural Gender Awareness Week Program will commence with International Women's Day on March 8 with the full day dedicated solely to women's issues. The remaining days will be devoted to an interdisciplinary, multi-cultural celebration of women and men in myriad fields an disciplines.

Gender Awareness Forum
Detailed Calendar

MONDAY, March 8
International Women’s Day

8:15-9:30 Teach In (Casey Room 101)
Name: Don Hsu
Course Name and #: MG 355 International Management
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: March 8 8:15-9:30
Description of lesson:  The role of women as role models in management will be explored in the areas of education, government, corporations, and globally.  Specific examples related to each of these areas will be given.

9:45-10:45 Film (Palisades)
Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships (55 mins.)
Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film tackles the complexity behind this seeming paradox, placing the voices of critics, producers, and performers alongside the observations of men and women as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships.

9:45-11 Featured Lecture and Teach in (Fury)
“Our Sheroes from the First and Second Waves of Feminism” by Marcia Clendenen
Psychology of Gender students from the Accelerated Program will present power points on Suffragettes, Abolitionists, and pioneering women psychologists. Marcia Clendenen will discuss the Second Wave of Feminism including personal experiences such as marching in support of the Equal Rights Amendment and forming a women's group on an army base at the height of the War in Viet Nam.

9:45-11 Teach In (Casey Room 201)
Name: Don Hsu
Course Name and #: Mk 326 Global Marketing
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: March 8 9:45-11
Description of lesson:  Women make up a small percentage of business mangers and executives.  How can they succeed? Are there any reasons that women will perform better than men in critical business decisions?  Are there any women role models in Global Marketing?  This issue will be addressed in this class.

11:15-12:30 Film (Palisades)
Michael Kimmel on Gender: Mars, Venus or Planet Earth? Men & Women in a New Millennium (54 mins)
We've heard again and again that men and women are engaged in a "battle of the sexes," that we're so differently wired and so foreign to each other that we might as well come from different planets. In this powerful new lecture, renowned speaker and bestselling author Michael Kimmel turns this conventional wisdom on its head. With clarity and humor, Kimmel moves beyond the popular inter-planetary notion that "men are from Mars and women are from Venus" to advance a decidedly more earth-bound and inter-connected view of the things men and women have in common.

12:45-2 Featured Lecture and Teach in (Fury)
“Our Sheroes from the First and Second Waves of Feminism” by Marcia Clendenen
Psychology of Gender students from the Accelerated Program will present power points on Suffragettes, Abolitionists, and pioneering women psychologists. Marcia Clendenen will discuss the Second Wave of Feminism including personal experiences such as marching in support of the Equal Rights Amendment and forming a women's group on an army base at the height of the War in Viet Nam.

12:45-2 Teach in (St. Catherine’s 2)
Name: Emily Bryan
Course Name and #: EN446 Shakespeare
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: March 8 12:45-2pm
Description of lesson: “Mad About the Boy: Shakespeare’s Transvestite Boy Actors,” This class would be on the representation of gender on the early modern stage.  We would consider the ways in which Shakespeare’s stage pushed the conventions of gender identity by looking at the figure of the boy actor.  We will also look at a section of the film “Stage Beauty,” which records the transition from boy actor to female actor on the English Restoration stage.

12:45-3:30 Featured International Women’s Day Event (Palisades)
 “Art & India: A Journey” by Joni Diskint (Artist)
Joni Diskint is a painter, teacher and active part of the Women’s Project in India, where she works with women and children.  Joni teaches art both here and in India and works with the Project to help them develop products that reflect their culture and can be marketed to the west.  Joni will be showing samples of her work and the art of the children of India.  She will describe and demonstrate her creative process and have objects on display as well as a power point presentation on her work in India.

4:00-4:30 Featured Event (Fury)
Irish Music and Step Dancing by Patty Furlong (musician)
This group will feature traditional Irish Music and Dance as performed in Ireland. The music is handed down from generation to the next generation.  The members of the group include Patty Furlong on button accordion, Margie Mulvihill on wooden flute and Rose Flanagan on fiddle.   Denise Lowe-Holt, TMRF, certified Irish dance instructor, has taught Irish dance workshops in the tri-state area. Denise will introduce the audience to group dancing, known as set dancing and teach a basic Ceili dance – Siege of Ennis – which is always danced at Irish weddings.  The solo-dancing group will include Catriona Furlong and Niamh Glynn who are members of the Verlin School of Irish Dancing.  These young ladies have represented our Region in the World Irish Dancing Competition held in Belfast, Ireland.

6:00-8:00   Film Screening (Fury)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell- Introduction by Leah Spiegelman
This film tells the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. 
A story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence, Pray the Devil Back to Hell honors the strength and perseverance of the women of Liberia.

TUESDAY, March 9

8:15-9:30 Teach in (Casey 13)
Name: Kate Hickey
Course Name and #: EN 454 Children and Adolescent Literature
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: Tuesday, March 9—8:15-9:30
Description of lesson: Male/Female roles in Children’s Books through the ages.

9:45-10:45 Film (Palisades)
Every Mother’s Son (52 mins)
In the late 1990s, three victims of police brutality made headlines around the country: Amadou Diallo, the young West African man whose killing sparked intense public protest; Anthony Baez, killed in an illegal choke-hold; and Gary (Gidone) Busch, a Hasidic Jew shot and killed outside his Brooklyn home. Every Mother's Son profiles three New York mothers who unexpectedly find themselves united to seek justice and transform their grief into an opportunity for profound social change.

11:15-12:30 Featured Event and Teach in (Palisades)
Blue v Pink:  What/How Do You Think by Dr. Mike Kelly
Course Name and #:  SE 441 Psychoeducational Diagnosis and Assessment
Through an interactive activity oriented session students will be exposed to an historical walk highlighting the biases, perceived and real, associated with the assessment of children’s academic, psychological, emotional, behavioral and social skills.  Gender bias as it affects the provision of sound educational practices that enhance the learning of each individual student will be explored.

Teach in (St. Catherine’s 3)
Name: Paul Bonk
Course name and #: SO 333P Global Interdependence
Date and Time of Proposed teach in: Tuesday, March 9th, 11:15-12:30
Description of lesson: Gender and economic development in underdeveloped countries.

Teach in (Casey 14)
Name: Stephanie Stiles
Course Name and #: EN 334P Age of Revolution
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: March 9, 11:15
Description of lesson: The Woman Question in Victorian British literature

12:45-2 Featured Event (Fury or Palisades)
SGA women’s history month speaker

2:15- 3:30 Featured Event (Fury)
GLBT 101 by Diane Schneider
This will be an introductory workshop to define the acronym GLBT while creating distinctions behind sexual orientation and gender identity.  Topics that will be covered will deal with gender variance as well as society’s need to put people in its binary niches and not deal with any of the gray areas.  Sexual orientation as a choice will also be discussed.  Questions and concerns will be welcomed at the end of the program.

3:45-5 Teach in (Prusmack 318)
Name: Bernadette Connors
Course Name and #: BI330  Molecular Biology
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: Tuesday, March 9, 3:45-5pm
Description of lesson:  Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution will be the topic of this teach-in.  A discussion of sex-testing in female athletes and sex determination at the genetic level will be the central theme.  If time allows, the class will also carry out a hands-on modeling experiment that will demonstrate why the human male Y chromosome, as we know it, may eventually disappear from the human gene pool. 

5:15-7:55 Teach in (Casey 209)
Name: Giovanna Czander, PhD
Course Name and #: RS 223C New Testament: The Social World of Early Christianity
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: Tuesday 5:15-7:55 pm
Description of lesson: This interactive lesson is entitled: Finding Mary on Earth: can Mary be a Model to Contemporary Christian Women? For centuries Mary, the mother of Jesus, has been venerated almost as a quasi-goddess. She has been considered a model to women for centuries. As gender awareness has shifted our understanding of women’s role, Mary too needs to be reconsidered in her role as model. Looking at Mary from a Scripture perspective, I will show a side of her that has been overlooked and argue that she can still be, albeit in a different way, considered a model for women, and men, today. 

9:00-11:00 Game Show (Lawrence Room, Rosary)
The Battle of the Sexes game show will allow up to 250 students to play this game at the same time.  The idea is to battle against the opposite sex and see who wins.  There will be a CASH PRIZE of $200!!

WEDNESDAY, March 10

9:45-12:00 Film (Palisades)
Julie and Julia (123 minutes)
Nora Ephron adapts Julie Powell's autobiographical book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Amy Adams stars as an amateur chef who decides to cook every recipe in a cookbook from acclaimed celebrity chef Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep) in order to chronicle it in a blog over the course of a year.

11:15-12:30 Teach in (Casey 202)
Name: Bonni Raab
Course Name and #:  SS 223V Social Problems
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: Wednesday March 10th at 11:15
Description of lesson: Kate Zisman MSW, Former Client Coordinator for the Polaris Project in Washington, D.C. will discuss her work with the Human Trafficking Project.

12:45-2 Featured Event (Fury)
“Where the Boys Are….Redux” by David Greene
A non-politicized approach to the educational issues facing boys from kindergarten through grad school...and beyond.

2:15-3:30 Teach in (Casey 13)
Name: Ellen Dolgin
Course Name and #: EN 442VG Honors- Women Come of Age
Date and Time of proposed teach-in: 3/10 Wed, 2:15-3:30
Description of lesson:  My class will read Rachel Crothers’ 1909 play, A Man’s World for that day’s class. The play takes on double standards of private as well as professional life, as the protagonist, a woman named Frank Ware, is a productive writer as well as a loving mother and friend.  The building where she lives is filled with struggling artists and there is another woman character who is neither professionally or “personally” (aka with a man) successful. Since the play came out in the midst of the “New Woman” era, I will show some visual materials that showcase the pros and cons of this movement, focusing on the insecurity it provoked in the “man’s world.”

6:00-8:00 Featured Event (Fury)
“Breaking Gender Stereotypes in the Workplace (Business, Criminal Justice, Nursing Professions)” by Fabiana DesRosiers
This event will explore career expectations for men and women and the gender stereotyping that takes places within different occupations.  Experts within the fields of Business, Criminal Justice, and the Nursing professions will discuss their experiences in breaking gender stereotypes in the workplace.

THURSDAY, March 11

11:00-3:00 (Lawrence Room)

Sheroes and Heroes Student Conference
 
11:00-11:30  Set up for all presenters

12:00-1:30    Exhibition for Academic posters and artwork

1:30-2:30      Presentation for Music, poetry or creative writing Judging for all categories

2:45-3:00     Awards and Presentation of Certificates

For more information please contact the Gender Awareness Forum Committee, Dr. Fabiana DesRosiers at 848-4070, Dr. Ellen Dolgin at 848-4008, or Dr. Tara Parrello at 848-4097.