Women's History Month 2011
A softball player with two
Olympic medals will deliver the keynote address at the sixth annual Audrey-Beth
Fitch Women’s Studies Conference, March 17 at California University of
Pennsylvania.
As a member of the U.S. women’s softball team, Jessica Mendoza won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and added a silver medal at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
Mendoza’s talk, at 7 p.m. in the Natali Student Center, caps off a daylong series of presentations related to social justice issues in athletics.
The conference, Leveling the Playing Field: Examining Gender, Social Justice and Sports, will address topics such as gender equity in intercollegiate athletics, racism in sports and socially responsible images of female college athletes.
Today, Mendoza is a left fielder for the league champion USSSA Florida Pride, a member of the National Pro Fastpitch’s U.S. Specialty Sports Association. A color analyst for ESPN during college football season and the Women’s College World Series, she is past president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, which named her its Sportswoman of the Year in 2008. The mission of the foundation, established by tennis great Billie Jean King, is "to advance the lives of girls and women through sport and physical activity."
The Audrey-Beth Fitch Women’s Studies Conference is just one highlight of Women’s History Month, celebrated each March at Cal U. Also scheduled to speak are:
- Ariko Iso, an athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the only female athletic trainer in the National Football League, at 9 a.m. March 23.
- Alexis Jones, a social entrepreneur, writer and television host, at 5 p.m. March 23.
- Jackson Katz, a nationally known anti-violence and women’s rights advocate, at 7 p.m. March 29.
In addition, The Vagina Monologues, an award-winning play by Eve Ensler, will be presented at 7 p.m. March 23, 24 and 25 in the Blaney Theatre, inside Steele Hall. Cost is $10 for community members, $5 for students. Tickets will be available starting March 14 in the Natali Student Center, or can be purchased at the door.
All other events are free and open to the public. Visitor parking is available in the Vulcan Garage, off Third Street near the campus entrance.
Schedule of Events
March 1
‘Training Rules’
7 p.m., Multipurpose
Room, Carter Hall
Discussion and clips from the award-winning documentary
about homophobia in women’s basketball.
March 15
'Remember the Titans’
11 a.m., Room 110, Eberly
Science and Technology Center
Panel discussion about the film, based on a true story, with
Cal U faculty members Dr. Kelton Edmonds, Dr. Charles Crowley and Dr. Elizabeth
Jones.
March 17
8:15 a.m.- 8:30 p.m., Performance Center, Natali Student Center
Presenters
8:15-9:15
Presenter: Stacy Tanner
Title: Through a Feminist
Lens: American Sport Film Since Title IX
Presenters: Katie Sullivan Barak, Dr. Vikki Krane, Dr. Sally R. Ross, Cathryn Lucas-Carr, Courtney Robinson
Title: Socially Responsible
Images of Female College Athletes
9:30-10:45
Presenter: Lindsay Parks Pieper
Title: Transsexual Athletic
Inclusion: A History of Cementing
Sex Segregation, Promoting Patriarchy and Casting Deviancy in Sport
Presenter: Dr. Bonnie J. Siple
Title: Mentoring Black Women Students in
Athletic Training Education: An Instrument of Social Justice
Presenter:
Dr. Andrae Marak
Title: Baseball, Masculinity,
Cultural Imperialism, and the Carranza Propaganda Machine
Presenter:
Dr. Barbara J. Denison, Jennifer S. Grassel
Title: Contrasting Approaches to Gender
Equality in Athletics: Examining China and the United States
11-12:15: Break for Lunch
12:30-1:45
Presenter: Dr. Jeanine Weekes Schroer
Title: Keeping
Score: The NFL, Women’s Tennis, and the Gendered Identity of Sports
Presenter: Dr. Jaime Schultz
Title: Sex Testing in Elite Women’s Sport
and the Question of Advantage
Presenter: Dr. Carol M. Biddington
Title: The Pregnant Athlete
Presenter: Dr. Dionne
L. Koller
Title: Title XI: Defining
the Content of Educated Based Sports Programs and the Content of Gender Equity
in Sport
2:00-3:15
Presenter: Dr. Rachel M. Madsen
Title: Social Role Theory and
the Preference for Male Coaches
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer L. Hoffman
Title: The
Senior Woman Administrator & Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: A Social Justice Perspective Part II
Presenters:
Nancy Jo Greenawalt, Dr. Paula M.
Parker
Title: Preferences
Revisited: A Qualitative Examination of Gender and Coaching
Presenter: Dr. Jeffrey N. Gerson
Title: The Declining Number of Women’s Head Coaches in College
Ice Hockey: An Oral History
3:30-4:45
Speaker Dr. Deborah Brake, University of Pittsburgh, author of “Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women’s Sports Revolution”
4:45-5:15 Poster Session
Presenter: Lindsey McGuire
Title: Female underrepresentation in
athletic administration: A review and analysis of theories and reasoning
Presenter: LeKesha L. Perry
Title: When Playing Isn’t
Enough: Perceptions of Hiring Women as Sports and Recreation Managers
Presenter: Vanessa MacKinnon
Title: Gender Discrimination in Golf
Presenter: Dr. Libby Larsen
Title: Fast Horses and Strong Women:
Racing in the Vicious Oval
Presenter: Lauren K. Marron
Title: A Place for Women in Athletic
Administration
Presenter: Dr. Susan Frietsche
Title: Challenges to Achieving Gender Equity in School Athletics
Presenter: Krystina Sarff
Title: NCAA Rowing as a Serious Leisure
Pursuit: A Space for Women’s for Identity Creation
Presenters: JP Staszel, Erin Paun
Title: Exploring recent physical
performance work completed with a series of collaborative artists as part of
Annie Sprinkles “Love Art Lab”
Presenters: Dr. Vikki Krane, Dr. Sally R. Ross, Katie S. Barak
Title: Authentic depictions: Women
athletes' self-designed photographic portrayals
March 23
9 a.m., Hamer Hall - room 136 B/C
Presentation by the athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the only female athletic trainer in the National Football League.
Alexis Jones5 p.m., Steele Hall
Presentation by social entrepreneur, writer and television host on Generation Y, leadership and social entrepreneurism.
Vagina Monologues
7 p.m., Blaney Theatre
With humor and grace, this award-winning play by Eve Ensler celebrates women's sexuality.
$5 students; $10 community
March 24
Vagina Monologues
7 p.m., Blaney Theatre
With humor and grace, this award-winning play by Eve Ensler celebrates women's sexuality.
$5 students; $10 community
March 25
Vagina Monologues
7 p.m., Blaney Theatre
With humor and grace, this award-winning play by Eve Ensler celebrates women's sexuality.
$5 students; $10 community
March 29
11 a.m., Natali Student Center - room 206-207
Coaches' workshop.
Dr. Jackson Katz
7 p.m., LRC, Morgan Hall
Presentation
on the connection between sports and violence against women, including thoughts
on the Ben Roethlisberger case.
Alexis Jones
Links
Alexis Jones
Jackson Katz
