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Friday, December 4th, 2015

Rhonda Sharpe: “I’m Every Woman”: Income Distribution by Race and Ethnicity – September 17, 2015

July 28, 2015 was Black Women’s Pay Equity day – the day that Black women’s…

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Mary DeCredico: “The Diary from Dixie: Mary Chesnut and the Southern Confederacy” – February 15, 2007

  Mary Boykin Chesnut was the daughter of a wealthy and influential South Carolina politician.

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Karline McLain: “Immortal Heroines: Goddesses, Wives, and Warriors in Indian Comic Books” – October 31, 2006


Amar Chitra Katha (Immortal Picture Stories) is India’s leading comic book series, with more than

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Christopher Boyatzis: “Women’s Body Image and Eating Behavior: Does God Matter?” – September 25, 2006

  Through history, women’s eating behavior and body image have been related in complex and

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Friday, November 6th, 2015

Gundolf Graml: “Black bodies on White Snow: Luis Trenker’s Film the Prodigal Son as a Case Study for the (Re)Construction of Whiteness in Nazi Germany” – March 29, 2006

  For the larger part of the twentieth century (and before), the idea of Germany

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