Barnard Center for Research on Women

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The Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) at Barnard College is dedicated to the promotion of feminist scholarship and activism. It comprises a community of faculty, students, staff, community activists, scholars, and alumnae. The center aims to keep feminist studies at the forefront of college life and works in collaboration with the college's Department of Women's Studies and Columbia's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. The Center maintains a resource library, hosts lectures and conferences highlighting women's studies research endeavors, and has a series of publications, including the Scholar and Feminist Online and New Feminist Solutions.

 

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Principal Staff

Janet Jakobsen, Ph.D., Director (on leave 2011-12)
E-mail: jjakobsen@barnard.edu

Elizabeth Castelli, Acting Director
E-mail: ecastelli@barnard.edu

Gisela Fosado, Ph.D., Associate Director
E-mail: gfosado@barnard.edu

Lucy Trainor '07, Program Manager
E-mail: ltrainor@barnard.edu

Pam Phillips, Administrative Assistant
E-mail: pphillips@barnard.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Barriers & Opportunities, Immigration & Migration, Diversity & Inclusion, Higher Education, Women's Movements, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Work:life Balance, Economic Development & Security, Education & Education Reform, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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Reports & Resources

S&FOnline

www.barnard.edu/sfonline

The Scholar & Feminist Online, a triannual, multimedia, online-only journal of feminist theories and women's movements, provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women's most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks. The journal builds on these programs by publishing related scholarship and other applicable resources. A forum for scholars, activists, and artists whose work articulates the ever-evolving role of feminism in struggles for social justice, S&F Online brings you the latest in cutting-edge theory and practice.

 

New Feminist Solutions

www.barnard.edu/bcrw/newfeministsolutions

Marking the newest direction in BCRW's more than thirty-five-year-old tradition of print publication, New Feminist Solutions is a series of reports geared toward informing and inspiring activists, policy-makers and others. Each report was written in collaboration with organizations and individuals who, like BCRW, have made a concerted effort to link feminist struggles to those of racial, economic, social and global justice. The reports are based on conversations and ideas emerging from conferences held at Barnard College, and are published in conjunction with websites featuring additional information from these events. Copies of the reports are free. They can be downloaded from the New Feminist Solutions website. Print copies can be requested by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu.

 

BCRW Newsletter Published biannually, the BCRW newsletter provides event information and feature articles that communicate some of the broader issues engaged by the events, thus providing readers with a new way of understanding the work of the Center as a whole.

The following issues are available to download in PDF format:

Spring 2010

Fall 2009

Spring 2009

Fall 2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

 

Guide to NYC Women's and Social Justice Organizations

www.barnard.edu/bcrw/guide

This rich guide puts you in touch with the artists, activists and organizations whose work is most crucial to you. You'll find valuable information from nearly five hundred citywide organizations that work for sexual, racial, economic and social justice. The directory reflects our longtime commitment to building far-reaching, and sometimes unexpected coalitions.

 Reproductive justice is an inclusive framework for thinking about reproductive freedoms, holistic well-being and comprehensive justice. Organizing for reproductive justice encompasses a multiplicity of issues; the individuals and networks working in this model are just as diverse in their missions, constituencies, and methods of action. Reproductive Justice in Action is the result of a collaboration between the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Groundswell’s Catalyst Fund, the New York Women’s Foundation and seventeen of their grantee partners doing reproductive justice work in New York City. Seeking to explore the ways in which these seventeen organizations think about their mission and work, we jointly embarked on a participatory action research project in order to better understand how the organizations relate to (or feel limited by) the model and language of reproductive justice.

 This issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by Rebecca Jordan-Young, brings together some of the most esteemed scholars whose works tie analyses of reproductive technologies to frameworks of reproductive justice. "Critical Conceptions: Technologies, Justice, and the Global Reproduction Market" considers what kinds of reproductive technologies are deployed by and for whom, and locates individual decisions and choices within a global political economy that aggressively reproduces relations of inequality based on race, class, gender, sexuality and physical ability.

Read it here.

 An online resource published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. This rich guide puts you in touch with the artists, activists and organizations whose work is most crucial to you. You’ll find valuable information from nearly five hundred citywide organizations that work for sexual, racial, economic and social justice. The directory reflects our longtime commitment to building far-reaching, and sometimes unexpected coalitions.

"Borders on Belonging: Gender and Immigration" in Scholar and Feminist Online Articles focus on the media, theories, and interventions of activists and artists. Expands on discussions arising from the 2007 Gender and Immigration conference which drew attention to public panic, fear and the resulting marginalization and criminalization of immigrants in the U. S. and around the world.

Report: "The Work-Family Dilemma: A Better Balance: Policy Solutions for All New Yorkers." This report is on a summit that brought together leaders, experts, and stakeholders. From this summit emerged a consensus around the need for a comprehensive work-family policy advocacy agenda for New York City.

Report: "Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to ‘Post-Civil Rights Era' Discrimination." This report is based on the Virginia C. Gildersleeve Conference, organized so as to take stock of the extant research and interventions and to chart a course forward. The report highlights the effects of a diffuse set of barriers to women's participation.

Opportunities, Grants & Fellowships

Student Initiated Events Fund

The Student Initiated Events Fund provides the opportunity for any student involved in an activist group at Barnard or Columbia to receive funding from the Women's Center to bring a local activist or scholar to a student-oriented program to discuss issues of gender, feminism, or women's lives. Alternately, a student may suggest a topic for a larger Women's Center program.

To apply, please send the following information to bcrw@barnard.edu: Name of student organization; student contact information; description of the event in as much detail as possible.

For further information, please email the address above or stop by the Center.

 

 


Multimedia

Video

Saba Mahmood: "The Politics of Freedom: Geopolitics, Minority Rights and Gender"

Lecture delivered on November 5, 2009 at Barnard College. Originally entitled "Should Religious Ethics Matter to Feminist Politics?" Mahmood's talk marked the sixth annual Helen Pond McIntyre '48 Lecture.

Eileen O'Neill: "The City of Women"

Eileen O'Neill delivering the closing remarks at the conference entitled "Women, Philosophy and History: A Celebration of Eileen O'Neill '75," held on October 2-3, 2009 at Barnard College.  

Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions

BCRW's rebuttal to claims that the Feminist Movement is losing momentum. In this film, Rebecca Haimowitz interviews some of the most exciting voices in feminist scholarship and activism.

Women and Work: Feminists in Solidarity with Domestic Workers

Documentary featuring women leaders from across the United States who are raising their voices in support of efforts geared towards doemstic workers in the United States. Participants include: Carol Jenkins, Maria Hinojosa, Liz Azbug, Nicole Mason, Amy Richards, Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, Yolanda Wu, Jennifer Baumgardner, and the Guerrilla Girls.

Leith Mullings: Race and Stratified Reproduction
An excerpt from "ART: Where are we Now?," a panel discussion at the 2009 Scholar & Feminist Conference, "The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life," held on February 28, 2009 at Barnard College.