Productive congress. Arehe same time, if there pieces of legislation that are consistent with his values, he will not be will sign those. It will be interesting for us to cover that. I want to thank the director for a wonderful conversation, i want to thank the peterson conversation for their continued support of these events. I think all of you for coming out. I want to give a special thanks to the director of my high school, it is that it came out. My mom is here as well. Good to see you. You taught my first economics class in high school or middle school. I think i passed it. I dont know if i did particular well. But i got through. Thank you for coming out. Having one for holiday season. We will see next year. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we hear from former white house officials tomorrow talking about their
Chance to make that the center of your research, and we cover just about everything. Its just like any other class where you take exams and write papers. Host what do you do with a womens study major . The short answer is law school. Many of my best students gone on to be title ix lawyers. Many go abroad. They work with women Birth Control the issue of violence against women in regions ranging from Northern Africa to bosnia. Many students do development in term of nonprofit. They do programming for everything from planted parenthood to organizations that work with women and girls. I have a couple of students who have gone on to med school and do specialties in womens health. Quite a few have been nursing, and i have a lot of students who are also as athletes involved in furthering women sports. Some are trainers. I have one in the olympics right now. I have another student interning at the winter games who is hoping to do some reporting on the situation of homophobia in russia. Host ko
Wrong with looking at half the worlds history. And i have negotiated many of these things throughout my teaching career. The idea is that i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful and playful way. And i wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and womens history so that as a diplomat from academic feminism i am approachable and i love my students, but enough with being rude to the professor. People would come by and say that i love your class. You not at all this way. And so thank you for putting that out there. So this is my say that you are not root of the professor in the class will not hurt you, looking at womens history will only improve your life. And what is it like for those on the other side . Those of us that have to deal with a whole range of our work by people who are fearful. Host would teach . What you teach . Guest i teach at George Washington university in georgetown. Everything required for the minor and the mainer. Introductory and womens history.
The person who founded bryn mawr. It came to me in the synapse just now. Host and you know what . That was my next thing because i wrote it down. They gave me the right they gave me that information. Guest i remembered it. Host pardon me. Arvin tweets in to you, professor morris please ask professor morris to narrate her story about asking president clinton to watch the Womens Basketball game. Guest well, i know, i filmed an interview about that earlier, but sure. Okay. So already a womens sports fan and basketball fan when i first began teaching at gw in 1994, i went to a doubleheader, and this was when they would have one ticket got you the mens game and the womens game, a long afternoon. So i was going to see two games, but i was surprised to have to go through a metal detector which had never happened at gw s. And somebody said the president s here. President clinton had brought chelsea to the game. He was very accessible. You could go right up and shake his hand. He went into the
Author Bonnie Morris, in your book revenge of revenge of the womens study, revenge for what . Guest the final tight is not meant to be provocative or rude. Its about having the opportunity to talk back to many people who steer type my field, or ask really unfair students. I have a bunch of terrific students intimidated by taking a basic class in womens history. They come to me and express doubt or concern. Theyre afraid what people will say. What will it look like on their transcript. So those experiences lead me to a really keen awareness of how many people feel there is something wrong with looking at half the worlds history. Ive negotiated many of these rude conversations throughout my teaching career. The idea of revenge was i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful playful way. I wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and women history. Show that as a diplomat from academic feminism, im not scary, im approachable, i love my students, but enough with being ru