{"id":6774,"date":"2011-08-04T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2011-08-05T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T16:38:09","slug":"summer-reading-with-the-women%e2%80%99s-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/08\/04\/summer-reading-with-the-women%e2%80%99s-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading with the Women\u2019s Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6776\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6776\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/08\/04\/summer-reading-with-the-women%e2%80%99s-center\/unpunished-book-cover\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6776\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6776\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/08\/Unpunished-book-cover-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Unpunished was written in the 1920s, as sympathy for women\u2019s rights waned. Gilman had trouble placing the work, and it remained unpublished until the 1990s.\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unpunished was written in the 1920s, as sympathy for women\u2019s rights waned. Gilman had trouble placing the work, and it remained unpublished until the 1990s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking for some fun reading to fill the last weeks of summer? Wright State University\u2019s Women\u2019s Center recommends <em>Unpunished<\/em>, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Unpunished <\/em>is an enjoyable,\u00a0light summer read,\u201d said Amber Vlasnik, director of the Women\u2019s Center, \u201cbut it\u2019s also an interesting novel about a husband and wife detective team who model a very equitable personal and professional relationship both for the time the book was written as well as for today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best known for her short story \u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper,\u201d an eerie story about a woman confined to her bedroom, slowly losing her mind. But <em>Unpunished <\/em>shows she had a playful side too. Unfortunately, <em>Unpunished<\/em> was written in the 1920s, as sympathy for women\u2019s rights waned. Gilman had trouble placing the work, and it remained unpublished until the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to support the publishing of this important work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,\u201d said Vlasnik.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion groups will meet in the Women\u2019s Center, 148 Millett,\u00a0on Friday, August 5, and Wednesday, August 10, from noon to 1 p.m. For more information about Women\u2019s Center summer reading, contact Cindy Vanzant at (937) 775-4818 or cindy.vanzant@wright.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for some fun reading to fill the last weeks of summer? Wright State University\u2019s Women\u2019s Center recommends Unpunished <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/08\/04\/summer-reading-with-the-women%e2%80%99s-center\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6786,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions\/6786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}