In the Viginia Gildersleeve panel on "Women, Work, and the Academy" (December 9, 2004), Nancy Hopkins, Claude Steele, and Virginia Valian outline our best current understanding of the status of women and minority scholars in academia and describe some of the most promising interventions undertaken to change these conditions. The inspiration for this panel and for the conference that followed is a growing body of work that focuses attention on conditions that persistently reproduce inequalities...
This panel discussion featuring Virginia Magwaza-Setshedi and Helen Lieberman, and moderated by Yvette Christiansë, was held on February 9, 2010 in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit "Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights" at Barnard College in New York. Organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, this event was co-sponsored by the Dobkin Family Foundation, the Tolan Family Foundation, and Ralph and Emily Simon Foundation.
Introduced by Janet Jakobsen, Saba Mahmood delivered the lecture, "The Politics of Freedom: Geopolitics, Minority Rights and Gender" on November 5, 2009 at Barnard College in New York City. Originally titled "Should Religious Ethics Matter to Feminist Politics?" Mahmood's talk marked the sixth annual Helen Pond McIntyre '48 Lecture. Visit
Introduced by Christia Mercer, Eileen O'Neill delivered these closing remarks, entitled "The City of Women," at the conference Women, Philosophy and History: A Celebration of Eileen O'Neill '75, held on October 2-3, 2009 at Barnard College in New York City. For additional videos and podcasts of this event and others like it, visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw.
This is the full-length video of "New Feminist Activism," a panel discussion featuring Mia Herndon, Debra Cole and Rinku Sen. This event took place on September 16, 2009 at Barnard College. Visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw for additional videos and podcasts of this event and others like it.
To those who claim that feminism has had its day, BCRW offers a brief, fascinating, and irrefutable rebuttal. In Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions, filmmaker Rebecca Haimowitz interviews some of the most exciting voices in feminist scholarship and activism.
The rate of imprisonment in the United States has been rising at exponential rates. In the last two decades alone, the population of incarcerated women has increased by 400 percent. At the heart of these numbers we find not only a certain philosophy of crime and punishment, but also complex and largely unexamined attitudes toward those we imprison. On April 8, 2006, building on an ongoing conversation that the Barnard Center for Research on Women has facilitated through its Women Seeking Justi...
Working with filmmaker Basia Winograd, the Barnard Center for Research on Women produced this documentary featuring women leaders from across the country raising their voices to support the work being done on behalf of domestic workers in the US. Participants include Carol Jenkins, Maria Hinojosa, Liz Abzug, Nicole Mason, Amy Richards, Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, Yolanda Wu, Jennifer Baumgardner, and the Guerrilla Girls.