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AASU' s Winterhalter to Lecture on Feminism

Savannah, GA— June 29, 2005— Teresa Winterhalter, associate professor of English and coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU), will give a lecture on "Risking Who One Is: Feminism and Public Spaces" as part of the Robert Ingram Strozier Faculty Lecture Series on July 8. The lecture will begin at 11:45 a.m. in room 156 of University Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Examining the history of responses to women who were brave enough to speak publicly about women’s issues reveals that these women have repeatedly been cast as "hyenas in petticoats," "hysterics on the loose," "battleaxes," or "hyper-charged political animals." To illuminate this legacy of backlash for contemporary women’s lives, Winterhalter will provide an overview of the impact feminist politics had on the careers of leading eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century women. Beyond establishing this historical underpinning, Winterhalter will examine "feminist" as a pejorative branding term in recent years.