The celebration of the 21 graduates will take place on Friday, May 17, 2013, in Breezedale from 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Women’s Studies graduates and faculty: please wear your regalia.

Refreshments, including a Women’s Studies cake, will be served.

Please RSVP to Lingyan Yang, director of Women’s Studies, at lingyan@iup.edu by Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Course Description

What is the relationship between gender and violence, and why is violence so common in intimate relationships between men and women? The class will analyze the problem of interpersonal violence using a gender lens and psychological research and theory. Multiple forms of interpersonal violence (including child sexual and physical abuse, teen dating violence, bullying, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and elder abuse) will be studied. Approaches to intervention and eradication of violence will be a focus. The course is designed especially for students who plan to study violence or to work with victims and offenders in a forensic, therapeutic, or criminal justice setting.

Instructor: Maureen C. McHugh

“In Sisterhood” is an oral history and multimedia project documenting the history of the women’s movement in Pittsburgh. The project was selected as one of 12 regional projects to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Pittsburgh region. The multimedia exhibits include portraits of 46 leaders, period photos, and ephermera and are designed to increase awareness of this inspiring regional history.

A Six O’Clock Series panel featuring several women scholars and activists will take place on February 18 to further introduce the exhibition. The event is free and open to the public.

Thank you to our cosponsors: University Museum, President’s Commission on the Status of Women, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the departments of Political Science, English, Psychology, History, Philosophy, and Theater and Dance, and the African American Cultural Center at IUP.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.

Cohosted by IUP Women’s Studies, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and the PASSHE Women’s Consortium.

If you have questions, contact Lingyan Yang lingyan@iup.edu.

With a 70 percent anti-choice legislature and a total of 228 legislative seats as well as several statewide offices up for election, summer 2012 is the perfect time to be a campaign organizer with Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania PAC—one of the most trusted, pro-choice, political organizations in Pennsylvania.

For more details, visit the Planned Parenthood Website.

Call for Papers, Posters, Presentations

Formal research projects and papers are welcome, but other forms of expression and demonstrations are also invited. Proposal submissions are due March 15, 2012, for IUP’s third annual Sex and Gender Conference. Send a one-page description (250 words) of your planned contribution to mcmchugh@iup.edu. Put “Conference Submission” in the subject line. Indicate clearly the nature of your presentation. Indicate length of time requested: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 60 minutes. Be sure to include your contact information. Accepted presentations and posters will be scheduled for April 12, 2012, in the HUB.

Keynote Speaker: Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D.

Author, educator, researcher, therapist, activist, and founder of the New View Campaign, an educational activist anti-medicalization campaign. See the flyer regarding the keynote speaker.

• Program Schedule
• Conference Flyer
• For more information or to join planning, e-mail mcmchugh@iup.edu.

Department of Women’s Studies

The presentation will include speakers and a poster session with international students representing various cultural backgrounds.

Department of Women’s Studies

This workshop will introduce Women's Studies faculty at IUP, Clarion, and other state system schools to approaches for developing a major in the field, particularly one that relies on distance education methods of delivery.

Dr. Shaw is a professor and the director of Women's Studies at Oregon State University, where she developed their online major in Women's Studies.  She is the author of a widely-used introductory women's studies textbook, Women's Voices, Feminist Visions.

For more information, e-mail ccraig@iup.edu.

Her keynote, “Demythologizing Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation: Understanding Where We’ve Been and Envisioning New Possibilities,” will address how we think about the concepts of sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Crane will discuss each in terms of their history and complexity, and inspire us to consider what it means to envision a broader menu.

Presented by Women’s Studies programs and GLBT Commission.

Cosponsors: Psychology Department, President's Commission on the Status of Women, Sociology Department, Graduate Programs in Composition and TESOL, Graduate Programs in Literature and Criticism, History Department, and Business

For the conference program and more information, please visit the symposium website.

The luncheon will take place from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in the Delaware Room of the HUB.

Lunch will be $10 per person and will be a delicious meal catered by Aramark.

Please register for the luncheon by e-mailing your name, e-mail address, and any dietary restrictions to IUPGenderAndSexuality@gmail.com by April 11, 2011.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Presented by Women’s Studies programs and GLBT Commission

Cosponsors: Psychology Department, President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Sociology Department, Graduate Programs in Composition and TESOL, Graduate Programs in Literature and Criticism, History Department, and Business

The symposium will take place in the HUB on Wednesday, April 13, 2011.

We are excited to invite you to join a multidisciplinary dialogue on gender and sexuality. Although formal research projects and papers are welcome, the symposium is designed to encourage meaningful dialogue amongst the community; thus, we encourage you to submit current projects and papers that will add to the conversation.

Various critical approaches—scientific, mathematic, literary, historical, political, rhetorical, ethical, philosophical, artistic, etc.—can be utilized to examine gender and sexuality. By creating an environment where professionals and students from the various disciplines can dialogue, we learn from each other, increasing our knowledge and competencies. The Symposium on Gender and Sexuality is a great place to start, where students, staff, and faculty are coming together to present their research and experience on the intersections of these topics.

Please visit our Symposium on Gender and Sexuality website for more information, or submit a proposal to IUPGenderandSexuality@gmail.com.

This event is co-sponsored by the GLBT Commission, Women’s Studies Program, Psychology Department, Sociology Department, Graduate Programs in Composition and TESOL, Graduate Programs in Literature and Criticism, History Department, and Business Department.

Women’s Studies Program

Anyone interested in learning more about the wage gap, how to equip themselves for establishing fair pay, and how to negotiate for salary and benefits that fit their experience and expertise, is encouraged to join.

Please e-mail Malinda Cowles at malinda@iup.edu to register.

For more information on $tart $mart Workshops, please visit the Wage Project.

Women’s Studies Program

The show will be performed in Pratt Auditorium by members of S.A.G.E. (Students Advocating Gender Equality).

There is a $5 entry fee. All proceeds go to the Alice Paul House. Additional donations are welcome.

Please contact Melissa Connelly at m.e.connelly@iup.edu for more information.

Women’s Studies Program

That Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady

Monday, March 21, 2011, at 6:00 p.m. in the HUB Ohio Room: Nancy Hulse combines dance, dramatic performance, and popular music in a six-segment show that illustrates the history of an abusive relationship that is specific in its violence yet universal in its theme. A Six O'clock Series Performance

$tart $mart Worksop

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. in G60, Suites on Maple East: Those interested in learning more about the wage gap, how to equip themselves for establishing fair pay, and how to negotiate for salary and benefits that fit their experience and expertise are encouraged to join.

Please contact Malinda Cowles to register.

Take Back the Night

Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. in the courtyard behind the Suites on Maple East and Delaney Hall: We will march through campus and parts of Indiana to show our support to victims of violence and to display our commitment to ending violence.

Second Annual Gender and Sexuality Symposium

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in the HUB: We are excited to invite you to join a multi disciplinary dialogue on gender and sexuality.

Breakfast-and-a-Book with Elizabeth Kincade

Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at 9:00 a.m. in Stabley Library, Room 210: Author of Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Strategies for Social and Individual Change

Lavender Graduation

Friday, April 29, 2011, at 5:00 p.m. in Breezedale: A Celebration for LGBT Graduates

Women’s Studies

The shows take place in Pratt Auditorium on Friday, February 25, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m., and Sunday, February 27, at 3:00 p.m.

There is a $5 entry fee. Additional donations are welcome. All proceeds go to the Alice Paul House.

Please contact Melissa Connelly at m.e.connelly@iup.edu for more information.

We are excited to announce Dr. Betsy Crane as our keynote speaker.

With this year’s theme in mind, “Overlapping Narratives: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” we invite faculty, students, and staff of all departments to present. This is a great opportunity to learn about one another’s research and receive updates from last year’s presentations.

We welcome fifteen-minunte papers, thirty-minute workshops, sixty-minugte workshops, performing arts, posters, and group panels on both global and local issues. Please submit a maximum 250-word abstract, along with your name, contact information, and type of presentation, to IUPGenderAndSexuality@gmail.com by March 1, 2011.

For more information on the conference and the proposal process, please visit the symposium website.

Cosponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, the GLBT Commission, Psychology, History, Sociology, Business, and English graduate programs in Literature and Criticism and Composition and TESOL.

Spring training begins February 7, 2011, and runs through April. Anyone interested in participating and learning valuable crisis intervention skills should call APH at 724-349-4444 or e-mail melodee@alicepaulhouse.org.

Women’s Studies faculty and minors have a long tradition of supporting the Alice Paul House through volunteer hours and fundraising, and APH coordinates support services for IUP students through IUP’s Haven Project.

Description of Course:

Dr. Lingyan Yang
Associate professor of English and affiliated faculty member in Women’s Studies, IUP

This upper-level Women’s Studies seminar examines the diverse, dynamic, complex, global, and multicultural intellectual tradition of the twentieth-century feminist theories in the world. We will interpret some of the best and the most celebrated women intellectuals’ vigorous conceptual intersections between feminist theories and numerous schools of thoughts, such as Marxism, poststructuralism and French thought, postmodernism, queer theory, postcolonial theory, Asian American cultural criticism, and African American cultural criticism. We pay much attention to women’s mediation between the private and the public, women’s individual selves and professionalism, female sexuality, women’s resistance against patriarchy and struggle with poverty, women’s independence and empowerment, women’s language, literature, and epistemology, feminist agency and activism, and women’s complex relationship with history, culture, community, and the world. Situated in the specific historical, social, sexual, and cultural contexts, our discussions will be enriched and complicated by the critical categories of gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, race, decolonization, and history. The course seeks to engage, stimulate, and empower.

Requirements include active participations, a few one-page informal critical responses, one oral presentation, a midterm paper (five to six pages), and a final research paper (six to eight pages). This is a recommended course for all Women’s Studies minors. All who are interested are very welcome. Enjoy.

Tentative Reading List:
1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
2. Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
3. Karl Marx and F. Engels, The German Ideology, up to p.65.
4. Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1988)
5. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984)
6. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

There will also be a few women-centered films, such as Rosie the Riveter, the women’s documentary classic, A League of Their Own, Silence of the Lambs, and Mulan, and a course pack with some clear and wonderful feminist theoretical articles, selected women’s poetry, and short stories. If you have questions, please e-mail Dr. Lingyan Yang at lingyan@iup.edu.

Learn about the fascinating speakers who want to be a part of this year’s conference, which takes place on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in the HUB.

• Andrea Gibson, performance poet/activist, has performed at the most prestigious universities across the country with powerful readings on politics, global justice, and gender issues. Her fourth full-length album, Yellowbird, contains a combination of her poetry with piano, global drums, dobro, and violin, as well as music from songwriters Kim Taylor and Christ Pureka and music inspired by Devotchka. Gibson has won numerous awards and competitions, including the 2008 Women’s World Poetry Slam, and has been featured on several programs, including NPR and the BBC.
• Betsy Crane, Ph.D., author, educator, and researcher, is the director of Widener University’s graduate programs in Human Sexuality. She has an extensive background in human services, ranging from academic publications to serving as the CEO of a human services agency. Dr. Crane has published on topics including social work practice with families, queer studies, and human sexuality. She has presented at numerous national conferences and conducted trainings on human sexuality across the country, as well as written curriculum on human sexuality for numerous audiences. Currently, Dr. Crane is co-authoring a book entitled Sexuality Though a Social Lens.
• Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D., is an author, educator, researcher, therapist, and activist in the areas of sexuality. She has written widely about the medicalization of men’s and women’s sexuality, including pioneering the anti-medicalization campaign New View. Dr. Tiefer has received numerous awards, appeared on news shows such as Nightline and the Today Show, and has published hundreds of scientific works. She has spoken as a keynote speaker for many organizations, using both humor and scientific knowledge to educate and raise awareness about issues related to sexuality.
• Matthew Burstein, Ph.D., in an educator and researcher. His interests focus on the intersection between philosophy of mind and social/political thought—with a particular focus on how integrated systems of norms (call them "institutions") create embodied persons. Though a philosopher by training, Matthew’s philosophical reflections remain grounded in the actual problems faced by those suffering under the burdens of systematically oppressive institutions. In his current job, he is developing experimental undergraduate curricula and new media strategies for Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
• Robyn Ochs, speaker, teacher, and writer, is an award-winning activist and the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide and Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World (second edition), the new anthology of 220 essays from forty-two countries around the world that explore bisexual identity. In addition to this work, her writings have been published in numerous bisexual, women’s studies, multicultural, and GLBT anthologies. Robyn has taught courses on GLBT history and politics in the United States, the politics of sexual orientation, and the experiences of those who transgress the binary categories of gay/straight, masculine/feminine, black/white, and/or male/female.

Women’s Studies Program

For a list of sections, please visit Women’s Studies Courses or refer to the schedule of classes listed on URSA.

If you have any questions regarding the Women’s Studies minor, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 724-357-4753, stop by our office in Stabley Library, Room 103, or explore the Women's Studies website.

All faculty and staff members, administrators, and students are invited to a reception in Breezedale Alumni Center on September 23, 2010, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Women’s Studies began as a program in the 1986–1987 academic year, when Dr. Maureen McHugh was appointed as the first director and began sponsoring speakers, conferences, exhibits, and colloquia on issues of gender equity.

The academic minor in Women’s Studies officially began twenty years ago in Fall 1990, with interdisciplinary course offerings that examine the dynamics of gender in a variety of fields and prepare students for careers in which awareness of and sensitivity to gender issues are especially important.

The Women’s Studies program at IUP announces a Read-In to help celebrate Women’s History Month. Come read and listen to poem and prose exerpts by women authors.

When: 3:30–5:30 p.m. on March 18, 2010

Where: Stabley Library Room 101

Food and drinks will be provided by Women’s Studies.

Everyone is welcome!

Are you interested in learning with what critical approaches—scientific, mathematic, literary, historical, political, rhetorical, ethical, philosophical, artistic, etc.—we can examine gender and sexuality in order to learn from them and from each other? Then this symposium is a great place to start, where students, staff, and faculty are coming together to present their research and experience on these topics.

The morning session will begin at 8:00 a.m. with registration, opening remarks, and a panel of distinguished speakers. The day’s activities include four one-hour workshops, eight thirty-minute panels, and six additional panels of paper presentations. Whatever style you prefer to engage these topics, there is something for everyone, including performing arts and poster sessions from noon to 2:00 p.m.

A $5 donation to support a second conference on gender and sexuality is suggested in place of a registration fee. Over $300 in prizes will be raffled for those who give a donation.

Keynote Speaker: Beverly Greene, Ph.D., will present a lecture on “Intersectionalities—Dividing and Conquering Between Socially Marginalized Groups: What the Same Sex Marriage Debate Hath Wrought” 

Dr. Greene was awarded a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute of Adelphi University and was a doctoral fellow in Mental Retardation at the Mental Retardation Institute of New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. She has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals and is the author of nearly one hundred publications in the psychological literature. Nine of those publications have received national awards as significant contributions to the psychological literature on women, women of color, sexual minorities, African-American women, and families.

She is the founding coeditor of the APA Div. 44 book series Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues. She is also the recipient of numerous national awards that include the 1996 Outstanding Leadership Award from the APA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns and the 2000 APA Society for the Psychology of Women Heritage Award.

Cosponsored by the President’s GLBT Commission, Women’s Studies, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, the Psychology Department, the Sociology Department, graduate programs in Composition in TESOL, and graduate programs in Literature and Criticism.

More information about the Symposium on Gender and Sexuality

Join us on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. (check in at 3:45 p.m.) in Room 116 of the Northern Suites (behind Weyandt Hall).

$tart $mart Campus Workshops cover the following topics in one three-hour presentation:

• The personal consequences of the gender wage gap: what a $1-million loss means over one’s working lifetime.
• Resources for benchmarking reasonable salaries and benefits: learn about job titles, their functions and salary ranges, the impact of market realities on salaries; compare skills and accomplishments to job requirements and market to target a realistic salary range.
• Negotiation: how to aim high and be realistic; practice negotiation through roleplay exercises.
• Know your bottom line: develop a “bare bones” budget to pay rent, buy groceries, repay student loans, and other basic expenses.

Pre-registration is required. There is no charge to students, and refreshments are included.

Interested students may register at the Women’s Studies Office in Stabley 103, or contact Andrea Harms (zhgq@iup.edu).

The $tart $mart Workshop is sponsored by IUP Women’s Studies, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women at IUP, IUP Career Development Office, Indiana AAUW, and other supporters. It is being offered nationally through the Wage Project in partnership with American Association of University Women and will be facilitated by the national director of the Wage Project.

Sponsored by the IUP Women’s Studies Program and the English Department.

Vegan food will be served.

• Wednesday, April 22, 2009
• Time: 7:00 p.m.
• Location: Ohio Room, HUB

• Friday, April 17, 2009
• Time: 3:30 pm
• Location: 113 Uhler Hall

Sponsored by: Psychology Department 

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009

Time: 3:30 pm

Location: Monongahela Room, HUB

Presented by Women’s Studies 

Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Time: 1:30-2:30 pm.

Location: 112 Leonard (Nicholson Library)

Presented by Women’s Studies 

John G. Burt will speak on Women’s Rights and the Anti-Slavery Cause.

In pre-Civil War Pennsylvania, abolitionists campaigned against slavery on multiple fronts. Among the most important abolitionists were Pennsylvania’s women, including Pittsburgh’s Jane Swisshelm, a pioneering journalist and civil rights advocate. Swisshelm was the first woman reporter to cover the U.S. Congress and was a key advocate in reforming Pennsylvania law which affected the rights of women. Burt will shed light on her contributions to the lives of professional women, women’s civil rights and the abolition of slavery.

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: HUB, Monongahela Room

Presented by Women’s Studies 

• Date: Friday, March 20, 2009
• Time: TBA

Presented by Women’s Studies

• Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
• Time: 2:00 pm
• Location: 201 Stabley Library

Women’s Studies

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Lecture: “Gender, Media, and Human Rights”
Monongahela Room - HUB
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

Friday, March 7, 2008

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Seminar: “Domestic Violence: Activism and Strategy”
Oak Room A
Due to limited seating, RSVP Sharon Aikins at saikins@iup.edu in order to reserve a seat at the luncheon.

Mallika Dutt is the founder and executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization using innovative high impact education, media, and popular culture to transform communities and bring about social change. Breakthrough works through offices in India and the United States, the world’s two largest democracies, on several issues including women’s rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS, and racial justice and immigrant rights.  See a more complete biography of Ms. Dutt.

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Lecture: “Closed Passages: Muslim Women, Islamism, Feminism”
Crimson Event Center, Folger Hall
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Seminar “Muslims in the West”
Oak Room A, Foster Hall
Due to limited seating, RSVP Sharon Aikins at saikins@iup.edu in order to reserve a seat at the luncheon.

Dr. Haideh Moghissi is a professor of sociology at York University in Ontario, Canada, cross-appointed in the School of Social Sciences, in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York School of Women’s Studies, and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. A more complete biography of Dr. Moghissi is available.

Artist Ann Rosenthal will lecture on campus Thursday, February 7 at 5:00 p.m. in 225 Sprowls Hall.  It is free and open to the public.

Ann Rosenthal brings to communities thirty years experience as an artist, educator, and writer.  Her art installations address the local manifestation of global concerns, including climate change, food safety, and nuclear waste.  Most recently, her work has been shown at the Andy Warhol Museum, Exit Art, the Hudson River Museum, several northeast universities, and in Japan.  She partners with trail organizations and post-industrial communities to reconnect citizens, educational institutions, and youth to their forgotten waterways as sites of common experience, history and possibility.  Her essays on eco/community art and interdisciplinary pedagogy have been published in several journals and anthologies.

Ms. Rosenthal's lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the IUP Women's Studies Program.

Special note:  Her lecture will be followed by the opening reception (6:00-8:00) of the exhibition "Four Degrees: Artistic Views on Climate Change," in Kipp Gallery (first floor of Sprowls Hall).

Mallika Dutt is the founder and executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization using innovative high impact education, media and popular culture to transform communities and bring about social change. Breakthrough works through offices in India and the United States, the world’s two largest democracies, on several issues including women’s rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS and racial justice and immigrant rights.

Mallika has been at the cutting-edge of the human rights movement for more than two decades exploring creative ways to incorporate human rights values into people’s daily lives. She has received several awards, is a sought-after public speaker, and has been interviewed by more than a hundred local and global media outlets on a range of human rights issues.

Mallika has authored several articles and essays including the widely referenced "With Liberty and Justice for All: Women's Human Rights in the United States." She was also the co-author of the globally utilized manual, "Local Action Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls," which has been translated into more than ten languages.

Prior to founding Breakthrough, Mallika was the program officer for the Human Rights and Social Justice Program at the Ford Foundation’s New Delhi office. Mallika has also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University and as the director of the Norman Foundation. She began her professional career as an Associate at Debevoise and Plimpton in New York City.

Mallika is a founder of Sakhi for South Asian Women and has served on several boards and committees, including the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project and Asia Watch, The Sister Fund, Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Lt. Governor Committee on Public Police Relations, Committee on Sex and Law - the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the U.S. NGO Coordinating Committee for the U.N. World Conference Against Racism. She is currently on the Board of WITNESS.

Mallika is a member of the New York State Bar. She has a J.D. from NYU Law School, a master's in International Affairs from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College.

Mallika grew up in Kolkata and Mirzapur in India and currently lives in New York with her husband Sumit Daniel Ghosal and their dogs, Piko and Sulta.

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Her colloquium topic will be “Closed Passages: Muslim Women, Islamism, Feminism.”

Haideh Moghissi, is a professor of sociology, cross-appointed in the School of Social Sciences, in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York's School of Women's Studies and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. She is also a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Dr. Moghissi was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving Iran in 1984. Her publications include articles in refereed journals and chapters in edited volumes and following books: Three-volume Women and Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology (ed.) London: Routledge (2005); Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis, London: Oxford University Press 2000 (Zed Press, 1999, winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award); and Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement, London: Macmillan Press; New York: St.Martin's Press (1994.). She has served as coordinator of Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (CARRP) and chair of the Executive Committee of Centre for Feminist Research at York University. She has served as a commentator on Iran and women in the Middle East on BBC World Service, CBC, Radio France, and Voice of America, and on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Journal of Comparative Public Policy, the Rutledge Women and Politics Series, Resources for Feminist Research , and Women in Struggle and Equality (Tehran). As head of Old Manuscripts Division, National Archives of Iran, she was responsible for the evaluation and classification of historical documents.

http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~diaspora/team/haiden.htm

From SIGNS homepage

Haideh Moghissi was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and a member of its first executive and editorial boards before leaving Iran in 1984.  She teaches sociology and women’s studies at York University in Toronto.  Her Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis (London:  Zed Books, 1999) was awarded the Year 2000 Choice Outstanding Academic Books Award in Sociology.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/SIGNS/journal/issues/v29n2/290239/290239.html