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Founded in 1972, the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies fosters the interdisciplinary study of women, gender, and sexuality, through a rich multicultural and internationally informed academic environment. Our Program seeks to produce intellectually rigorous, analytical and creative work that embodies the perspective of gender in its local and global dimensions through teaching, research, and outreach activities.

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    A 40th Anniversary: February Sisters and the Birth of Women's Studies

    On February 4, 1972, a group of women took over a building on campus and made some demands, including more women faculty and a women's studies program -- this event changed the face of KU and is the spark that led to our department.

    For Tami Albin's website on the February Sisters events, 1-7 Feb 2012, click HERE!

    For more information on February Sisters:

    An Historical Summary

    http://www.kuhistory.com/proto/story.asp?id=44


    To celebrate the 40th anniversary of February Sisters, WGSS is planning a series of events for 1-7 February 2012, including a re-enactment, a student presentation of what life at KU would be like if February Sisters had not occurred, a panel discussion with some of the actual February Sisters themselves, and a major speaker, Angela Davis.


      February 1 (W)
    • Opening of "Where We Were Then -- Where We Are Now: Women Artists at the Spencer Museum of Art," curated by Susan Earle. Spencer Museum of Art, Teaching Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

    • Student re-enactment of February Sisters Occupation Wescoe Hall, 9:00 am - 2 p.m.

    February 2 (Th)
    • "Women and Peace: the 22011 Nobel Peace Prize Trio of Laureates," a Roundtable sponsored by the Kansas African Studies Center on African Women Nobel Prize Winners. English Room - Kansas Union - 4:00-5:30 p.m.


    February 4 (Sa)
    • "February Sisters Speak Out: 40 Years after the Occupation" -- oral historians Sherrie Tucker and Tami Albin will interview on the Spencer Auditorium stage women who where inside and outside the occupied building during the 4 February 1972 occupation. Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, 7:00-9:00 p.m.


    February 6 (M)
    • Virgina Scharff, author of The Women Jefferson Loved, Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age, and Home lands: How Women Made the West. Hall Center Gender Seminar, 1:30 pm AND Hall Center public lecture, 7:30 pm.


    February 7 (T)
    • lecture by feminist scholar and activist Angela Davis. Budig 120, 5:00-6:00 p.m. (book-signing immediately after)
      FREE tickets are available to guarantee seating.


      Faculty, staff, and friends of WGSS can request tickets and pick them up at the WGSS office, 213D Bailey Hall (E: wgss@ku.edu; T: 785-864-2310).

      Students should pick up their tickets from Student Union Activities, 4th floor Union.



    Angela Davis