FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2002 CONTACT Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 PROFESSOR TO DISCUSS HISTORY OF MEXICAN WOMEN Anne Rubenstein, assistant professor of history at York University in Toronto, will present a lecture titled "The Short-Haired Girls and Their Sisters: Mexican Women and Transnational Modernity, 1920-1940" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, at Drake University in the Honors Lounge Of Medbury Hall, 1317 28th St. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will use mass media and high art imagery to explain why some Mexican women making revolutionary claims to economic autonomy and political authority in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution were met with such resistance. Rubenstein earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1994. Her interests include collaborating across disciplinary and political borders, working with other scholars on questions involving embodied experience, mass media, gender and politics. She has published numerous book chapters and articles, and will soon have a book titled "Bodies, Cities, Cinema: Going to the Movies in Mexico Since the Revolution" published by Duke University Press. For more information, call C. Richard King, director of the Critical Studies of Culture Program, at (515) 271-2745.