Study Abroad in London Summer 2008
Earn Women's Studies Credit!

In July and early-August, 2008, the Michigan State University Women's Studies Program in London offers the opportunity to study the lives of British women. London is a perfect setting for cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary investigation into British women's writings and culture, feminist movements, and feminist theories and perspectives.
British women have made vital contributions to women's progress and have had intellectual, social, and political links to the United States since the 18th century.

Classroom discussion and readings are guided by such questions as:
What influences have constructed notions of gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexuality had on British women's lives? What are British feminisms? By focusing on an overview of the ideas and history of the British women's movement, and on an overview of selected British women writers, we hope to come to some answers to these questions and to raise others as well.

Discussions and readings will be enhanced by contacts with women's organizations and trips to the Women's Library (formerly the Fawcett Library), London's premiere archive of British women's activism.We will go on walking tours of London's great sights and of Women's London, to theaters, art museums, and on trips to Stonehenge, Oxford and Leeds Castle.Along the way, we will compare U.S. notions of gender with England's and examine ways in which culture is influenced by legendary and ordinary women.

Who can tell me more about this program?
Joyce Ladenson, Professor  Emerita
Michigan State University
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Women's Studies Program
Bessey Hall
E-Mail: ladenso2@msu.edu
Joyce Ladenson  is the former, long-time director of MSU's Women's Studies Program and a professor emerita in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. She has written and lectured on U.S. women's literature, culture, and history, and Women's Studies as a field of study.She is passionate about understanding diverse women's lives in their contributions to change in many cultures and nations.

For information about dates of the program, costs, credits, and the 2007 syllabus visit

http://www.msu.edu/~ladenso2/WSLondon08.html

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