The Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Present

“It's Time to Throw Our Weight Around: The New Field of Fat Studies”

Esther D. Rothblum, Ph.D.
Professor of Women's Studies, San Diego State University, and former colleague in the Department of Psychology, Esther will speak on lesbian studies (an update of her and Beth Mintz's pioneering work on Lesbians in Academia) and, on her new work in the field of "fat studies." Her research and writing have focused on lesbian relationships and mental health, and she is editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. She has studied same-sex couples who had legal relationships in Massachusetts, California, or Vermont. She has just completed a study of lesbian communities, bisexual women's communities, and communities of heterosexual sisters. She also conducts research on the stigma of women's weight.

Thursday, October 13, 2011
Waterman 427
4:00 p.m. ~ 5:30 p.m.

Special thanks to our sponsors:
The Department of Psychology and The LGBTQA Center

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Women's and Gender Studies
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