This guide lists and links to resources such as books, web sites, and films which highlight and compliment Women's History Week 2010 events.
A listing of all events, including dates, times, and descriptions, is available at the Women's History Week web site.
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Banner image by Mark Goodspeed, SAC Webmaster
Women’s History Week 2010
March 1 – March 4, 2010
What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man? Are boundaries between female and male natural or constructed? To explore these and related questions, the Women’s History Week Committee has chosen this theme for Women’s History Week 2010:
“Different Spheres: Reality or Illusion?”
KEYNOTE ADDRESS*
Tuesday, March 2, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. – McAllister Auditorium
Dr. Robert S. McElvaine, Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Letters, Millsaps College
“The Distant Origins of our (Mis)Understanding of the Sexes”
Opening remarks by Dr. Robert Zeigler, President, San Antonio College
Dr. Robert S. McElvaine, keynote speaker for San Antonio College Women’s History Week 2010, is the author of Eve’s Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History, a work which combines the fields of biology, history, language, psychology, anthropology, and religion to present a cogent and challenging alternative interpretation to what is too commonly assumed to be the “natural order of things.”
Dr. McElvaine’s lecture, based in part on this work, will present an innovative and multidisciplinary challenge to traditional interpretations about the relative status of women and men in society and the ways in which perceptions and misperceptions of differences between the sexes have shaped human history, beginning in prehistory.
*All Women’s History Week presentations are open to SAC students, staff, and faculty as well as the general public. Movies are open to SAC students, staff, and faulty.
Look for When I Was Girl posters placed throughout the campus throughout the entire week.
Monday, March 1
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. -- Loftin Student Center, Fiesta Room
Presentation by State Senator Leticia Van de Putte: Women in Leadership with an introduction by Sharon Navarro.
Tuesday, March 2
9:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. -- VATC, 120
Presentation by Elizabeth de la Portilla: Night to His Day: The Construction of the Feminine in the Work of 20th Century Feminists
10:50 a.m. -- VATC, 120
Film: Voices Heard, Sisters Unseen (75 minutes)
12:15 p.m. – VATC, 120
Film: In My Father’s House (67 minutes)
Wednesday, March 3
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - San Antonio College Empowerment Center
Presentation by Sue Gallego: Latinas and HIV/AIDS: Cultural Implications - a workshop for counselors & other helping professionals
11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. – VATC, 120
Presentation by Richard Reed: From Alpha Male to Nurturing Father: How Childbirth Affects Dads
12:00 p.m. VATC, 120
Film: Visitors of the Night (34 minutes)
Thursday, March 4
9:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. – VATC, 120
Presentation by Dr. Antonia Castañeda: On Whose Shoulders We Stand: Chicana/Latina Women's Vision, Power, and Action in San Antonio followed by the presentation of the Women of Vision Award.
10:50 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Presentation by Gayl Newton: Recovering the Stories of Female Pioneers: How Their Lives Can Inspire Us Today
12:15 p.m. Film: Uphill All the Way (80 minutes) with an introduction by Michelle and Nathan Hunt
Logo by Brook Rosser, Vistual Arts & Technology Department
Promotional poster for Dr. Robert McElvaine's Keynote Address, “The Distant Origins of our (Mis)Understanding of the Sexes” on Tuesday, March 2.
Only 78 genes separate men from women. Are we really that different?
Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History
Latina legislator : Leticia Van de Putte and the road to leadership by