Scholar to discuss ‘Gender Responsive Prisons’ at Rice lecture

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News staff

RUTH WILSON GILMORE

Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore will discuss California’s recent decision to create and implement gender-specific policies and programs known as “gender responsiveness” as part of the proposed remedy for negligent health care within the prison system at a Nov. 3 lecture at Rice University.

Gilmore, professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will deliver a lecture titled “Gender Responsive Prisons: Or the Dangers of Innocence” at 6 p.m. in Sewall Hall, Room 301. A book signing will follow.

Gilmore is nationally known as an activist and intellectual and is immediate past president of the American Studies Association (ASA). She has examined how political and economic forces produced California’s prison boom in “Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California,” which was recognized by ASA with its Lora Romero First Book Award. Gilmore’s wide-ranging research interests also include race and gender, labor and social movements, uneven development and the African diaspora. She works regularly with community groups and grassroots organizations and is known for the broad accessibility of her research.

The free event is open to the public; it was organized by Rice’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality as part of the Gray/Wawro Lectures in Gender, Health and Well-Being.

For more information, contact riedelbs@rice.edu or visit http://cswgs.rice.edu.