Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Dawn Teele of the School of Arts and Sciences collaborated on research measuring gender bias in academic publishing. The study found that journals focused on qualitative research had higher percentages of female authors.

Julie Fairman of the School of Nursing contextualized mid-century demands on aspiring nurses to remain unmarried.

Tala Al Jabri, an M.B.A. student at the Wharton School, addressed the state of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. In a New York talk, Al Jabri discussed the “number one” issue of guardianship, which prevented her from leaving her country without her father’s approval.

Kathleen M. Brown of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed the evolution of sexist respectability politics in the U.S. Brown traced the history of socially-appropriate behavior for women from the early suffrage movement to the present day, where men in power can no longer “count on a woman’s shame and stigma to cover their tracks.”

Penn students Ashley Barrett, Arike Jacobs, and Erica Suarez joined Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts and Sciences on “Good Day Philadelphia” to discuss Tillet’s seminar “Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Solange.” (Video)

Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed her seminar “Family Feuds: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Solange and the Meaning of American Music” and analyzed the viral Coachella performance’s commentary on Black womanhood.