The 2018 Maryann Hartman Awards recognizing the inspirational achievements of Maine women will be presented to author and chaplain Kate Braestrup of Lincolnville, community organizer and activist JoAnne Dauphinee of Bangor and state legislator Peggy Rotundo of Lewiston. The women will be honored in a ceremony at 6 p.m., March 28 at Buchanan Alumni House […]
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Susan Gardner, director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Rising Tide Center at the University of Maine; and Samantha Saucier, an undergraduate student and co-director of the Women’s Resource Center at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Misogynist banners normalize campus rape culture. There’s nothing funny […]
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Professor of higher education Susan Gardner has been named director of the University of Maine Rising Tide Center for Gender Equity, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her appointment, effective July 17, concludes a national search for a director of the center that is an outgrowth of UMaine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center and […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that two years after the University of Maine’s Women’s Resource Center closed, a group of students is pushing to get it reinstated. For 23 years, the center served as a place where women could go to get information about gender equality or sexual and reproductive health, find support as victims […]
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The Weekly reported on the 28th annual Maine Women’s Hall of Fame celebration held in March at the University of Maine at Augusta. Ann Schonberger, a former mathematics professor and director of what was then called the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Maine, was honored during the event. Schonberger also is a faculty […]
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The University of Maine will host several public programs centered around a free performance of a play that offers historical and contemporary insight into the plight of women in Iran. “The Poets and the Assassin” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 in Minsky Recital Hall on campus. The play portrays struggles Iranian […]
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The 30th annual Maryann Hartman Awards at the University of Maine will celebrate the achievements of three Maine leaders — Maine Attorney General Janet Mills; calligrapher and book artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt of Stillwater, Maine; and Joyce Taylor Gibson, dean of the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The Young Women’s Social Justice Award will […]
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Elizabeth Nieman, an assistant professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Maine, and Elisa Sanse, a UMaine Ph.D. student in history, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “The Bangor school dress code controversy proves girls are still judged by their appearance.” Sanse is taking a […]
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Elizabeth Neiman, an assistant professor in both English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maine, wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News titled, “‘Cisgender’ is now in the dictionary. It reminds us to reflect on our gender identity.” Cisgender, or “someone whose sense of personal identity corresponds to the sex […]
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The Maine Edge reported nominations are invited for the Maryann Hartman Awards for Maine Women of Achievement and the Maryann Hartman Young Women’s Social Justice Award. Each year since 1986, the Maryann Hartman Awards Ceremony has celebrated significant contributions of Maine women in a variety of fields, according to the article. The awards are named […]
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