Women's and Gender Studies Symposium Feb. 12

The 15th Annual Women's and Gender Studies Symposium takes place on Friday, Feb. 12, 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Bone Student Center Prairie Room North.

The symposium's keynote speaker is historian and author Rickie Solinger, who is also the curator of "Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is not a class privilege in America," the photo exhibit currently on display in University Galleries. She will deliver her keynote address "Who Gets to Be a Real Mother in the United States: Race, Class and the Fallacy of 'Choice'" at 1 p.m.  

For a complete agenda, e-mail wgstudies@IllinoisState.edu.  The symposium is organized and sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program, Office of the Provost, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Social Work, Milner Library, Departments of English, History, Philosophy, and Sociology and Anthropology, MECCPAC-A Dean of Students Diversity Initiative, University Galleries, and The Fell Trust.