Empowering Pathways: What is Possible with a WGS Major?


  • Marketing Assistant for National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • Lobbyist for the ACLU

  • Public Relations Associate for Girls Ink online magazine

  • Development Associate for non-profit organizations

  • Employee for International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

  • Screenwriter

  • Employee for American Bar Association, working on CEDAW issues (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)

  • Lawyer

  • Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill

  • Analyst for Democratic polling and consulting firm

  • Fundraiser for domestic violence shelter

  • Communications Director for Greenpeace

  • Social worker

  • Director of Communications at United Way

  • Staff at a battered women's shelter

  • Affirmative Action Officer

  • Family counselor

  • Women's health coordinator

  • Clinical therapist

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McKinnon

Selected Publications
2013 - Vital Relations: Modernity and Persistent Life of Kinship. (With Fenella Cannell, eds). Santa Fe: SAR Press.

2008 - Afterward: Adoptive Relations in Theories of Kinship and Modernity.   In Relative Power: Changing Interpretations of Fosterage and Adoption in Pacific Island Societies. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 31(3/4). Jeanette Dickerson-Putman and Judith Schachter, eds.  Pp. 232-247.  

2005 - Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture. (With Sydel Silverman, eds). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McDowell

Selected Publications

Pauline Hopkins. Of One Blood, Or the Hidden Self, edited, And with an Introduction. Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Frederick Douglass.  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, edited and with an introduction. Oxford University Press, 1999.           

Leaving Pipe Shop:  Memories of Kin. Scribner’s, 1997 Paperback edition, W. W. Norton, 1998.

Period Editor, "Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, 1940-1960."

Maus

Selected publications

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. Co-edited with Sheila Whiteley. February 4, 2022.

“LGBTQ+ Lives in Professional Music Theory,” Music Theory Online, 26/1, March 2020.

“Sexuality, Trauma, and Dissociated Expression.” The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, ed. Joseph Straus et al. 2015.

“Classical Concert Music and Queer Listening.” In online journal Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales. Special issue: “Music and Queer Theory.” 2013.

Martens

Selected Publications

The Promise of Memory: Childhood Recollection and its Objects in Literary Modernism (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 2011).

The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 273 pp.
 

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