Positioning campus women's and gender equity centers for success: structural issues and trends / Jane Goettsch, Ann Linden, Cindy Vanzant, and Pattie Waugh -- Beyond parties and PNMs: an integrated model for women's and gender centers and sororities / Rita M. Jones -- Exploring the relationships between campus women's centers and LGBTQ+ centers and initiatives / Jane Goettsch, Marci Mccaulay, and Hannah Thompson -- Solidarity is for all: women's centers serving women of color / Lysa Salsbury and Rebekah Millermacphee -- Late to the game: the politics of opening a women's center in 2015 / Jessica Nare -- Where do we enter? How do we stay? The role of consciousness raising in developing women's center professionals / Kathleen Holgerson and Juli Parker -- Experiences of women's center directors in student affairs / Colleen Riggle and Melanie Demaeyer -- On trauma, ambivalence, and trying too hard / Susannah Bartlow -- Putting our oxygen masks on first: women's and gender center staff and self-care / Brenda Bethman and Anitra Cottledge -- Seeking relevance in an age of inequity: a case study of the identity struggle of one women's center / Susan V. Iverson and Cassie Pegg-Kirby -- Blue language in a red state: inclusive sexuality education in a conservative climate -- Lysa Salsbury, Julia Keleher, Erin Chapman -- Ohio women's centers' reflections on evaluation and assessment: revisited / Nicole Carter, Lisa Rismiller, Amy J. Howton, Susanne B. Dietzel, and Kimberly A. Fulbright -- Paying homage to college and university women's centers: gender justice work in the center for diversity and inclusion / Emelyn Dela Peña, Purvi Patel, and Brittany Harris -- Beyond the label: leveraging the iconography of feminist from moments to movements / Uyenthi Tran Myhre -- The personal and the professional: intersectional experiences in gender justice work / Jessica Jennrich, Sharalle Arnold, and Allison Roman -- Addressing and dismantling cisgenderism in womxn's centers: reframing womxn's centers work toward an intersectional critical trans politic / Heather C. Lou -- Vision to action: inside out strategic planning / Karlyn Crowley, St. Norbert College -- Setting a transformative agenda for the next era: research on women's and gender centers / Raquel Wright-Mair and Susan B. Marine.
Summary:
"University and College Women's and Gender Equity Centers examines the new institutional contexts surrounding women's centers. It looks at the possibilities, as well as the challenges, to advocating for gender equity in higher education, and the ways in which women's and gender equity centers contribute to and lead that work. The book first describes the landscape of women's centers in higher education and explores the structures within which the centers are situated. In doing so, the book shows the ways in which many women's centers have expanded their work to include working with athletics, Greek life, men, transgender students, international students, student parents, veterans, etc. Contributions then delve into the profession of women's center work itself, and ask how women's center work has become "professionalized?" Threats and challenges to women's and gender equity centers are also explored, as contributions look at how their expansion has helped or complicated the role of centers? The collection concludes by highlighting current successes and forward-thinking approaches in women's centers and asking how gender equity centers can best prepare for the future? Through narratives, case studies, and by offering strategies and best practice, University and College Women's and Gender Equity Centers will engage emerging and existing equity centre professionals and women's and gender studies faculty and students and help them to move the work of gender equity forward in the next decade" -- Provided by publishers.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.