August
29 , 2003
Quidnunc
Cultural Kudos
Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco,
by Anthony Lee, associate professor of art history and chair of
American studies, garnered the Cultural Studies Book Award from
the Association of Asian American Studies. The book, which contains
more than 160 photographs and paintings, blends art and the social
and political history of San Francisco’s Chinatown during
its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950.
Brodsky Revisited Nobel Prize–winning poet Joseph
Brodsky, Andrew Mellon Professor of Literature from 1981 to 1996,
speaks again in Cynthia L. Havens’s new book, Joseph
Brodsky: Conversations, published by the University Press
of Mississippi. The book covers print and broadcast interviews
from 1972, when he landed in America, to 1995, just ten months
before his death. “He transformed himself from a stunned
émigré into, as Brodsky termed it, ‘a Russian
poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen,’”
noted Havens.
Self-Improvement A single, two-hour workshop can make
a positive change in women’s feelings about their bodies,
according to a study done this spring by Jill Anne Matusek ’03.
Her findings could have significance for the 72 to 85 percent
of college-age women who experience some level of discomfort with
the size and shape of their bodies. Matusek, under the tutelage
of visiting professor of psychology and education Sally Wendt,
conducted her research with the help of 84 female undergraduates.
Twenty-four attended a single session of a “healthy behavior”
workshop that focused on nutrition, 26 attended a single session
of a myth-busting “thin ideal” workshop, and the remaining
participants attended neither workshop. Follow-up surveys showed
that both workshops improved participants’ eating behavior
and that the “thin ideal” workshop left the women
with more positive body images and improved self-esteem.
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