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    Penn Today Features GSWS and PWC

    Penn Today covered the GSWS Program and Penn Women's Center's work with University Archives to archive materials documenting 50 years of gender activism and scholarship at Penn . The article features students in GSWS Associate Director Gwendolyn Beetham's course on interpersonal violence, who visited the women's center archives in February as part of the course's module on documenting violence at the university. The full article can be read at Penn Today.
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    Bates Center Seminar Series: Dr. Kelly S. O'Donnell

    Bates Center Seminar Series During the academic year, the Bates Center hosts prominent scholars from around the globe to present new historical scholarship in its seminar series. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm.   DR. KELLY S. O'DONNELL I am a historian of medicine and gender in the modern United States, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of US History at Bryn Mawr College. My research focuses on the complex relationship between women and healthcare. I have written extensively on the history of birth control and abortion, health activism, and the gender politics of medical research and the historical archive. My book in progress, The Pill Hearings: Science, Politics, and Birth Control, is a culmination of my research on the history of birth control, health activism...