Tell me why mama

Spring Awakening, Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking 1890s play, is a daring exploration of teenage sexual awakening set against a backdrop of religious and parental repression. The audience can only pity the confused adolescents squeezed in its vise: pretty buds bursting into doom. Click headline for show times and a study guide.

Around the World in 72 Days shows Monday

Around the World in 72 Days is the featured Women’s History Month Monday movie, March 29 at 7 p.m. in King Hall 110. At the age of nineteen, Nellie Bly talked her way into an improbable job on a newspaper, then went on to become known as “the best reporter in America.” The daring Bly continually risked her life to grab headlines. To expose abuse of the mentally ill, she had herself committed. When she traveled around the world in just 72 days, beating Jules Verne’s fictional escapade, she turned herself into a world celebrity.

Politics & Women talk March 30

“Writing Women Back into Politics,” a Women’s History Month brown bag lunch presentation, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 30 in CMU 203. When we only focus on firsts and figure-heads we lose sight of why equal representation is such an important issue for the U.S. What is a jury of your peers? Who is the best person to engage in a debate on welfare and where tax money is spent? What does gender/sex have to do with it? Women’s Studies Prof. Heather Ehrichs Angell leads the discussion.

Anti-Feminism topic of March 31 talk

“Women Against Women: the Origins of Anti-Feminism” is the topic of a brown bag presentation Wednesday, March 31 talk at 11:30 a.m. in CMU 205. History Professor Paul Harris and MLA graduate student Travis Barrows, will lead the discussion. Men may have led opposition to the women’s suffrage movement, but once the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote, it became clear that many women were also opposed to feminism. The anti-feminist movement among women in the 1920s raises questions of continuing relevance (think Sarah Palin). Click headline to read more.

Feminist filmmakers topic of March 31 talk

A Women’s History Month presentation on “Resistance is the Secret of Joy: Feminist Images of Women in Film” will be delivered by Women’s Studies Professor Nancy Jones at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 31 in CMU 205. This presentation will examine how feminist filmmakers resist stereotypical images of women. Click headline to read more.