The mission of the Women's Center is to assist students with a successful, positive college experience, and to help everyone in the UNL community understand the changing roles of women and men. The Women's Center is located in 340 Nebraska Union.

We have a library, a meeting room for discussion groups, and a lounge area for conversations, studying or just relaxing. Anytime the Nebraska Union is open you can read the bulletin boards and peruse the pamphlet racks in the hall outside the Women's Center.

Resource Library

Researching a paper or preparing a presentation about a gender issue? Looking for some fun fiction or a history of women and tattoos? Need passive programming for your hall as a Resident Assistant?

Welcome back to UNL and have a happy fall 2010 semester!

The Women’s Center Resource Library has over 2700 books, DVDs, VHSs, posters, and magazines. Our books range in topic from literature, sociology, psychology, history, law and politics, and all sorts of other topics, all analyzing issues of gender and sexuality, or the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality.

Just like in Love Library, our resources can be checked out with your NCard. Books can be checked out for two weeks and DVDs and VHSs for two days. If you aren’t finished with the resources by then, you can re-check them. If you would like to watch a VHS and you don’t have a VCR, we have one and you can watch it in our office (Nebraska Union, room 340). Magazines cannot be checked out, but copies can be made of any articles you are interested in. Often RAs will check out our posters for a month for their passive programming displays. Our books are included in the Love Library Catalog, located at http://iris.unl.edu/, or you can come to the Women's Center and just browse our collection!

Some of our newest resources include:
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Guide to Getting It On: For Adults of All Ages by Paul Joannides
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses, A Memoir by Joy Castro
The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings by Winona LaDuke
You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russell Kick
Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads by Gary Greenberg and Jeannie Hayden
Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities by Susannah B. Mintz

And the DVDs:
Beauty Mark: Body Image and the Race for Perfection
Breaking Our Silence: Gloucester Men Speak Out Against Domestic Abuse
Generation M: Misogyny in Media and Culture
Pick Up The Mic: The Revolution of Homohop
Women’s Power

If you have any questions concerning the Resource Library, would like to know more about our resources, or want help with a research project, e-mail our Resource Assistant Shasta at womenscenterlibrary@yahoo.com or call her at 472-2597 ext. 4.

Meet the Undergraduate Staff

The Resource/Library Assistant, Shasta, maintains our video, book and periodical collections and assists students in using those resources. She is always looking for new ideas about books and materials to order for our library, so let us know your suggestions. You can contact her at 472-2597 ext. 4 or womenscenterlibrary@yahoo.com.

The Volunteer Coordinator, Heidi, recruits, trains and maintains communication with the many volunteers who help us provide gender related programs to the campus. With the assistance of our volunteers she keeps the bulletin boards on the third floor interesting and informative. Visit our volunteer opportunities page to find an application, or come to the Women's Center. You can contact Heidi at 472-2597 ext. 3 or WC_VolCoor@yahoo.com.

The Programming Assistant takes a leading role in creating and publicizing educational and entertaining programs (such as speakers or concerts) related to gender issues. Kimberly works with other campus departments and student organizations to develop programs which will reflect the interests and needs of a wide range of students. If you are interested in a book discussion or have ideas for other programs, contact Kimberly at 472-2597 ext. 2.

The Men's Outreach and Education Coordinator, Justin, recruits and trains male volunteers who want to work to end violence against women and to challenge the gender stereotypes that are harmful to all of us. He collaborates with other organizations and departments to create programming that encourages men to explore society's ideas about men's roles and masculinity. Contact Brady at 472-2597 ext. 5 to join this effort.