"Bringing Sex into Focus: The Quest for Sexual Integrity"

Sponsored by the Sexuality Series

View the award-winning film on what Newsweek calls "the most underreported crime in America." Stay for food and discussion.

Co-sponsored by SAPT and Gender Studies

"Is It Rational to Choose to Have a Child?"

Marisela Ortiz

Dr. Christina Van Dyke

"The Hunger Games and Philosophy: Discipline and the Docile Body"

"Lady Power"

"Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny"

Writing contest

Junior & Senior level: top 3 papers - $100 each
First-year and sophomore level:
top 2 papers - $100 each

Submit a Spring 2011–Spring 2012 course paper that focuses on a gender issue for this campus-wide writing contest. E-mail an electronic copy to Professor Van Dyke at cvdyke@calvin.edu.

Evaluators will judge papers according to uniqueness of topic, depth and integration of research, strength of argument, clarity, and style

Paper winners will be announced at a Gender Studies end of the year party on Tuesday, May 8 at 3:30 in the library lobby.

Join us for a play of "THE OTHER HALF: True stories of Gender, Sex, & Sexuality" in the Lab Theater. Stay after for discussion, reception, and to hear more about the Gender Studies program.

Killing us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women

Co-sponsored by Gender Studies, SAO, Sexual Assault Prevention Team, & Student Life

French Film Festival

Potiche (Trophy Wife)
by François Ozon (2010) 

Co-sponsored by the Calvin French Department, the Calvin College Film Forum & Gender Studies

Elizabeth McLaughlin

"Iron-Jawed Angels" (Film starring Hillary Swank on the battle for women's suffrage).

Co-sponsored by the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council. Open to the public.

Jenell Williams Paris

"The End of Sexual Identity"

"The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates over Sex, Violence and Science."

Co-sponsored by the biology, communication arts & sciences, philosophy and sociology departments.

"Paradoxes and Taboos: Gender, Culture and Physicality."

"Come to the Table: a Theologian Looks at Judy Chicago's 'Dinner Party.'"

Co-sponsored by the religion and communication arts & sciences departments. Refreshments will be served.

Refreshments will be served.

"Is this the New Girl Order? Represtations of Post-Feminist Identities in Sex and the City."

Co-sponsored by the Teaching Fellows, Committee on Gender Equity, and the Ofice of the Provost. Refreshments will be served.

Celebration Cinema North
(off campus)

Multimedia presentation to be followed by a reception and book signing.

A lecture of the West Michigan Women's Studies Council Nokomis Foundation Lecture Series and co-sponsored by Calvin and other area universities.

Writing contest

Junior & Senior level: top 3 papers - $100 each
First-year and sophomore level:
top 2 papers - $100 each

Submit a Spring 2009–Spring 2010 course paper that focuses on a gender issue for this campus-wide writing contest. E-mail an electronic copy to kgroenen@calvin.edu and sgoi@calvin.edu.

Evaluators will judge papers according to uniqueness of topic, depth and integration of research, strength of argument, clarity, and style.