ADDRESS OF PARKS HALL: 500 W 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Sammy Kay can't help but notice that athletic women have always been a dangerous lot. "After all, it's hard to think of yourself as weak and dependent after you've just run five miles."
- Sammy Kay tends to ramble. It runs in the family. Though it's hard to pin her down, she's likely to talk about a good number of the following:
- the All American Red Heads
- 19th-century bicycle craze
- play days
- sports fashions
- medical theories
- ancient Greeks
- Olympic sex tests
- African-American athletes
- All-Girls Professional Baseball League
- high school gym class
- Little League
- media coverage
- Title IX
- famous foremothers in sport
- exclusionary membership practices
- femininity/sexuality stereotypes
- and more....
The Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is teaming up with The Department of Athletics to bring Jane Curry to OSU. Curry's one-woman show called "Nice Girls Don't Sweat" will premiere sometime in March. Stay tuned for more details.
"Jane Curry is an author, storyteller, performer, and recovering academic with a knack for provoking both thought and laughter with her one-woman shows. Since 1983, she has traveled with her various personae to forty-eight states, Israel and Japan and is available for single-show events, multiple-show tours, and residencies.
Written and performed with a sense of history and humor, the five shows described below address themes of women's history and gender equity. They have been featured for a variety of audiences and venues: performing arts stages, conferences, banquets, fundraisers, teacher in-service workshops, Artists/Lecture/Lyceum/Convocation Series, student assemblies, government agencies, corporations, college and university programming, community groups, festivals, and celebrations.
These performances are also especially appropriate for special events: Women's Equality Day (August), National Girls and Women in Sports Day (February), Women's History Month (March), Math, Science, & Technology Month (April), National Chemistry Week (October), Federal Women's Day, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (February), and National Business Women's Week (October).
In 2012 we will be marking the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which has had a profound effect on women in educational programs and activities, particularly in sport. Celebrate this milestone with a performance of "Nice Girls Don't Sweat.""
ADDRESS OF PARKS HALL: 500 W 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210