Session Details

Sunday, 30 December

664. Women’s Studies at Work in the World: Transnational and Global Interventions

8:30–9:45 a.m., Arkansas, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Women’s Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: María Herrera-Sobek, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

1. “Asia-Pacific Transnational Feminisms and the Problem of ‘Inherent Representation,’” Shirley Lim, Edgewood Coll.

2. “Teaching beyond the Border in Women’s and Gender Studies,” Lauren J. Lacey, Edgewood Coll.

3. “Problematizing Polygyny in the Historical Novels of Chinua Achebe: The Role of the Western Feminist in Transforming African Marriage Customs,” Andrea Powell, Ball State Univ.

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