Thinking critically

Next OpenPages event highlights women’s and gender studies

“Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies’’ will be on the agenda at the next OpenPages event.

The reading and discussion is Wednesday, March 1, at 7 p.m. in the new first-floor lounge of UPEI’s Robertson Library.

OpenPages features local authors speaking about their books – what inspired them, what they learned and what they want to share.

The public is invited to the event and light refreshments will be served.

Ann Braithwaite, professor and co-ordinator of diversity and social justice studies at UPEI, co-authored the new book “Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies’’ with Catherine M. Orr, professor and chairwoman of critical identity studies at Beloit College.

The book is a guide to engaging students in the challenges and pleasures of thinking critically about gender, race and sex today. By focusing on “the everyday’’, it speaks to the importance of students’ understanding the taken-for-granted circumstances of their daily lives.

“Everyday Women’s and Gender Studies’’ explores the idea that “people are different, and the world isn’t fair’’, and engages students in the inevitably complicated followup question, “now that we know, how shall we love?’’

“This publication is of great significance for students from any faculty, even though it is most likely going to have the greatest impact in the faculty of arts,’’ said Nebojsa Kujundzic, dean of arts at UPEI.

For more information, contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press, ispstaff@upei.ca, or Simon Lloyd at the library, slloyd@upei.ca.