Current Feminist Research in Chicago
Join three emerging scholars for a discussion of their current projects. Angelique Grady examines “Bisexuality and the Politics of Identity: How Myths, Misconception, and Misunderstandings Affect Mental Health Service Delivery”; Marketa Sharp offers “Frieda High W. Tesfagiorgis: A Different Outlook on Feminism”; and Amanda S. Williams presents “Untold Beauty/Beauty Untold: Discovering the Lives and Work of Illinois Women Artists 1840 - 1940.”
DIY Music Culture and Feminist Change
Music can be an effective tool for speaking out against oppression and hegemony, and in Chicago has long served as a voice of sociopolitical change. Maria Jenkins, KT Leuschen, and Heather Wilberg examine how DIY (do-it-yourself) culture provides performance opportunities and audiences that allow women, GLBTQs, persons of color, and other marginalized groups to share their experiences and challenge the hegemony present in both of the profit-driven music industry, and DIY music itself.
Feminism and Mental Health: One Chicago Approach
For 30 years, the Chicago Women’s Health Center has provided health care to uninsured and underinsured women throughout the Chicago area. It is one of only a handful of agencies that utilize a feminist approach to mental health. In this roundtable, Pam Niesluchowski, Dana Sinopoli, and Lauren Feldman discuss how feminism has altered traditional approaches to mental health and how CWHC puts these revised theories into practice.
19th Century Roots – 21st Century Relevance
Two Chicago-area educators share research on topics with roots in 19th century Chicago.
Felicia M. Elias presents on “Raqs Sharqi in Chicago:
Look Back, Looking Now, Looking Ahead – And What DOES ‘Belly Dance’ Have to Do with Feminism”?
Currency Kerndt presents on Chicago journalist, philanthropist and lecturer “Mary Livermore”, including her work as a correspondent and front–line nurse during the Civil War, and contributions to the suffrage movement.
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