Theme: Women’s Studies.
Today’s show will feature two different talks presented at the 27th National Women’s Studies Association Conference held in Oakland last week. The theme of this year’s conference was Locating Women’s Studies: Formations of Power and Resistance and looked at mothering as resistance, aspects of empire building and globalization, race theory and feminist science studies.
We will hear a talk by Andy Smith assistant professor of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan on Native Women and gender,,and a talk by Gwendolyn Mink, professor of Women’s Studies at Smith College, on welfare reform.