Presented by Bee Bloeser
Based on the speaker’s observations during two years in West Africa, her course will cover restrictions imposed on women and girls—behind literal walls as well as a metaphorical one. Bee Bloeser had the rare opportunity to experience a place closed to the outside world when she was tasked with checking for smallpox scars in Kano, Nigeria’s Old City. Her smallpox-fighter husband was not allowed there because the women were “in purdah,” not to be seen by any man outside their immediate family. In addition to offering a glimpse of life behind the walls, the course will also address another kind of barrier—the lack of water. UNICEF estimates that worldwide, women and children, mostly girls, spend two hundred million hours a day walking for water, severely limiting their opportunities. Lastly, guest speaker Doug Rudholm will discuss his experience teaching inmates within a California women’s prison.
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