Celebrate Women's History Month

March is Women’s History Month and is celebrated in libraries across the nation with lectures, events, displays, and films. This year’s celebration of Women’s History Month commemorates the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which is being recognized across the nation. 

A nationally recognized celebration throughout March, Women’s History Month originated in 1981 when Congress authorized and requested President Ronald Reagan to proclaim a Women’s History Week. The week selected in March for Women’s History Week coincided with the anniversary of an 1857 strike for better pay and working conditions held by women working in a garment factory in New York City. In 1987,  the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned for Congress to designate the month of March to be Women’s History Month. The 2020 Women’s History Month theme is “Valiant Women of the Vote.”  The theme honors "the brave women who fought to win suffrage rights for women, and for the women who continue to fight for the voting rights of others."

LIBRARY EVENTS - POSTPONED

Please visit the great Women's History Month display put together by our Circulation staff which is featured in the lobby of Albertson Hall.  

We will be postponing this book talk for a later date. Thank you. 


Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo 

Lexington Books, 2019

Author: Dr. Kelly Wilz

"Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo provides audiences with constructive models of affirmative consent, tender masculinity, and pleasure in popular culture that work to challenge toxic dominant and hegemonic constructions. While numerous scholars have illustrated the many ways mediated culture shape social understandings of sexual violence, this book analyzes texts that might serve to resist rape culture. This project locates how these texts manufacture cinematic or televisual narratives and in turn work to create new realities that encourage cultural and social change. Kelly Wilz analyzes the ways in which we, as a culture, tend to understand sex through visual media and dominant cultural myths, while highlighting productive texts which might serve as a possible corrective to the ways in which sex is ritualized by rules that legitimize violence. Through the lens of productive criticism, Wilz examines how language and dominant ideologies around rape culture and rape myths reinforce systemic violence, and how visual texts might work to reimagine how we might disrupt those ideologies and create new ways to engage in conversations around intimacy and violence. By centering the voices within the #MeToo movement, who actively work to de-normalize sexual assault and abuse, these models provide a useful counter to the deluge of dehumanizing narratives about survivors and sexualized violence. Scholars of pop culture, women’s studies, media studies, and social justice will find this book particularly useful."