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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 24, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Women’s Studies Program, 615-898-5910

WORKSHOPS EXPOSE HOW SYSTEMS ESTABLISH PECKING ORDER
Peggy McIntosh Focuses on Privilege Based on Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation

(MURFREESBORO) - Dr. Peggy McIntosh, associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, will present “Recognizing and Lessening Systems of Privilege with Regard to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation,” a workshop for administrators, faculty and staff, as part of the Women’s Studies Conference at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in the Tom H. Jackson Building.
McIntosh also will guide a workshop for MTSU students titled “Coming to See Privilege Systems: The Surprising Journey” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the State Farm Lecture Hall.
McIntosh’s events are co-sponsored by the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, the National Women’s History Month Committee, the Women’s Studies Program, the Distinguished Lecture Fund, the Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technologies Center, the American Association of University Women, and the Holocaust Studies Committee.
For more information, contact the Women’s Studies Program at 615-898-5910 or womenstu@mtsu.edu.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a jpeg of Dr. Peggy McIntosh, contact Gina Logue in the MTSU Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu.