Hamilton students in Global Feminisms and Gender and Environment visited Nuestras Raices, a grassroots Puerto Rican farm community in Holyoke, Mass. on Sept. 26. Nuestras Raices promotes economic, human and community development in Holyoke, a town whose population is 40 percent Latino/Latina. They engage in projects relating to food, agriculture and the environment while building cultural pride in the local Puerto Rican community. More ...

Anne E. Lacsamana, assistant professor of women's studies, recently had her essay "Identities, Nation, and Imperialism: Confronting Empire in Filipina American Feminist Thought" published in the anthology Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping, and Resistance, co-edited by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Isidor Walliman. More ...

Delia D. Aguilar, the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies, gave presentations in the Philippines during the winter break.  She spoke at Ateneo de Manila University about the ways in which contemporary U.S. feminism departs from the women's liberation movement of the 70s.  At the University of the Philippines, Aguilar and noted Filipino scholar E. San Juan were invited to address the currently pressing subject of global crisis, war, and the academy. 
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