Questions? Comments? Email us at: [email protected] B.C. WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES NEWS & EVENTS February 2, 2011 Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/BCWomensStudies LIKE us on Facebook: “Boston College Women’s and Gender Studies Program” Women’s Think Tank The Women’s Think Tank is a consciousness‐raising forum focused on discussing feminist issues on campus, locally, and globally. Two WRC student staff members facilitate the discussions, but participants are regularly given the opportunity to lead discussions by bringing in articles, videos, or images that relate to issues relevant to gender equality and feminism. Each semester, Think Tank members develop an action project that can raise awareness throughout the entire campus about one or more topics that have come up during the semester. Meets every other SUNDAY at 7:30PM in the WRC (McElroy 141) For more info contact Riley Collins: [email protected] A special thank you.. To all the students, faculty, and staff who attended our screening of Miss Representation last week; we hope the event brought the misrepresentations of women in the media to your attention and that you will continue to explore and discuss these issues further. In addition, we would like to thank our wonderful panelists who engaged us in a critical and thoughtful analysis after the film. Our tremendous gratitude to: Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, Emily Barko, Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow in the Sociology Department, and Heather McIntosh, Visiting Professor in the Communications Department. Prof. Judith Wilt (English) will conduct a discussion of the Twilight book and movie series, with emphasis on "Breaking Dawn," on Valentine's Day, Tuesday February 14, at 12pm in the Women's Resource Center, as part of the WRC's "UnCovered" series on books and their film adaptations. "Breaking Dawn: Part One" is scheduled to be released on DVD on February 11. A group of readings from the book is available at the WRC to refresh minds; the readings center on the interaction of the three main characters in the novel's story of love, pregnancy, and the double birth of a "monster child" and a vampire heroine. Twilight Discussion