Scholar to discuss ‘Gender Responsive Prisons’ at Rice lecture

Franz Brotzen
713-348-6775
franz.brotzen@rice.edu

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, 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.

Who: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

What: Lecture on “Gender Responsive Prisons: Or the Dangers of Innocence.” A book signing will follow.

When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3.

Where: Sewall Hall, Room 301, on the Rice University campus, 6100 Main St.

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” (University of California Press, 2007), 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.