CONTACT: Louise Snider, (619) 594-5204; lsnider@mail.sdsu.edu

Author-Lecturer To Address Impact of Women's Studies Programs in America in Free SDSU Lecture Series

SAN DIEGO, Wednesday, September 15, 1999 ­ In a visit back to the university where she helped launch the first women's studies program in the United States 29 years ago, Marilyn J. Boxer will present the opening lecture in the Feminist Research Colloquia at SDSU, "When Women Ask the Questions: The Difference It Makes."
The free public lecture will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, September 22, in the Presidential Suite of Aztec Center at San Diego State University.

Drawing upon her experience as both teacher-scholar in European women's history and a senior university administrator, Dr. Boxer will discuss the way in which women's studies has challenged intellectual constructions, university curricula and dominant trends in the academy.

Women's studies represents one of the major intellectual movements of the last half century, argues Boxer, author of "When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America." The intellectual movement precipitated by the growth of women's studies programs, both in the United States and abroad, is one in which San Diego State University played a formative role as the first women's studies program in the country.

Boxer, professor of history at San Francisco State University and an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, was the first chair of the Department of Women's Studies at SDSU and subsequently was dean of the College of Arts and Letters.

For further information, please contact the SDSU Department of Women's Studies, (619) 594-2952.

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