Women's History Month Kicks Off on March 1

The National Women’s History Project is based out of Santa Rosa and its co-founders are local women, some of whom are SSU alumnae and current SSU staff. Three of these women — Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter and SSU librarian Paula Hammett — are helping kick-off Women’s History Month on March 1 with a reception and presentation.

The schedule of events for the month includes:

"Why Women's History Month?" Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter and Paula Hammett: Co-Founders of the National Women's History Project. 6-7 p.m., March 1. Reception, ICC Gallery, Student Union. 7-8 p.m. presentation, multi-purpose room, Student Union
"Laramie Project," Ives 76 @ 7:30 p.m., March 7, 10, 11, 16, 17. Free admission with SSU ID
"Sexy or Sexist? Images of Women and Men in Popular Culture," Gail Dines, 7 p.m., March 15. Cooperage
"We've Come A Long Way, Baby! A Her-story of Women in American Sport," Beez Schell, 7 p.m., March 21. Cooperage
"10th Annual Woman Student Leader of the Year Ceremony," 7 p.m., March 28. Cooperage
"In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country," Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American writer and artist. Noon-1 p.m., March 29. Schulz 3001

Scene-It Film Series, 9 p.m., Cooperage - Iron Jawed Angels, March 11; Memoirs of a Geisha, March 25.

Queer Studies Lecture Series, Noon-12:50 p.m., Carson 68
Cathy Cade, "The San Francisco Dyke March: Radical Politics and Our Community Event," March 7
James Dean, "Racial Heterosexual Identities: Black and White Heterosexualities," March 14
Dora Dome: "Jennifer's Complaint: Homophobia and Sports," March 28

Women's History Lunches, Noon-1 p.m., Salazar 2021
Randall Dodgen, Ph.D., "The New Chinese Entrepreneurial Woman: What Would Confucius Say? Or Mao?"; Catherine Nelson, Ph.D., "Is It Already Too Late? What Really Happened to Roe v. Wade?," March 2

Kathleen Noonan, "Romancing Pocahontas or Naked Cartwheels in Jamestown," Michelle Jolly;"Women & Missions in Early California," March 9

Nan Alamilla-Boyd, "Male Impersonators in Early 20th Century San Francisco"; Steve Estes, "Dykes or Whores: Sexism, Homophobia and Military Women's Catch-22," March 16

William Poe, "Sex in the Temple: Fantasy or Slander?" March 23

Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, "Immigrant Women: Challenges to Historiography"; Judith Abbott, "Queen Ealswith and the Mercians," March 30

Poster Retrospective, ICC Gallery. All Month

"Melanie Kent Steinhardt: The Life and Art of an Émigré," University Library Art Gallery Exhibit, Through March 24.