06/09/2009

Taking The Next Step - Gender and Women's Studies Achieves Department Status at UK

The UK Board of Trustees have approved the advancement of the Gender and Women's Studies program in the College of Arts & Sciences to department status at their June 9 meeting. 

In a certain main academic office on campus is a picture of a half-undressed young woman, breast exposed, smoking, with cigarette butts littered around her enticingly draped bed. It is the cover of a pamphlet dated 1905 that loudly asks the loaded question, “Is College Bad for Girls?” and insinuates that a college education leads young women to such deadly sins as “flirting” and “speaking to male students without Proper Introduction or Chaperone.” The pamphlet cover, now a relic in the newly created Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, is a visual reminder of how far women in the academy have come in the last 100 years...Read the full story here.