Women's Center

Resources
Referral
Programming

Created in 1990, the Georgetown University Women's Center seeks to serve the needs of all women at Georgetown. The GUWC is a place where women can access information and services, support each other, share ideas, victories, and challenges, and work together in a safe, inclusive environment. In an oppressive world, this space was intended to welcome and encourage women's perspectives and opinions.

Resources

The Women's Center Library is open to all students, faculty, and staff. We invite visitors to utilize our books, magazines, information binders, and brochures, which offer information on gender-related issues, whether personal, academic, or professional.

The library carries books on topics as diverse as Eating Disorders and Transnational Feminism. You can check out books like

• Our Bodies, Ourselves
• Zami, by Audre Lorde
• Am I THIN Enough Yet?, by Sharlene Hesse-Biber
• Sexwise, by Susie Bright
• Women, Race and Class, by Angela Y. Davis
• Angry Women
• Violence in Dating Relationships, by Maureen A. Pirog-Good and Jan E. Stets
• Healing the Whole: The Diary of an Incest Survivor, by Yvette M. Pennacchia
• Women of Georgetown College: The First Quarter Century
• Sources: An Annotated Bibliography of Women's Issues

Magazines like Ms. and off our backs are available in current and back issues. Both books and magazines can be checked out. You can also pick up brochures on sexual assault, women's health issues, women's activism opportunities, and resources available for women on-campus and off-campus.

Referrals

We provide a referral service for individuals who seek counseling, legal, and medical assistance and crisis intervention. The Women's Center staff refers visitors and callers to the appropriate offices and agencies, both on- and off-campus. Further, the Center provides a wide range of information regarding practices, policies, and institutions that pertain to and can assist women with a variety of concerns.

For more information on Georgetown Resources for women, check out the Women's Issues page.

Programming

The Women's Center sponsors many support and consciousness-raising groups, events, and speakers, and publishes a monthly newsletter, actively encouraging programming that is sensitive to women and women's concerns. Faculty, staff, and students of all colors, genders, backgrounds, and orientations are welcome to participate in Center programming. GUWC programs include the following:

Volunteer Opportunities

The Women's Center is almost entirely volunteer supported. Without volunteers to staff, arrange programs, support, and help publicize the Center and its services, the Center's mission could not be fulfilled. To ensure the success of that mission and to support GUWC volunteers, the Center is committed to a program that provides students, faculty, and staff with an array of different volunteer experiences, with varying time commitments and areas of concentration.

Those who wish to volunteer may take positions as Women's Center Staffers, Women's Center Student Interns, and Women's Center Mentors. Staffers welcome visitors to the GUWC and provide information about the Center's programs and services. Interns oversee such areas as the Center's resources and referral, its women's leadership, health, diversity, or graduate and Liberal Studies students' programming, its publications, and its relationship to the campus community.

Also, individuals are encouraged to contribute in other ways, from simply posting flyers to leading and facilitating a group activity. More detailed information on current options or on submitting proposals for other projects is available at the Women's Center and in the Women's Center's Volunteer Program brochure.

Volunteer applications are available online or at the Women's Center. Contact Nancy Cantalupo for more details on the Women's Cetner Volunteer Program.

Women's Center Mission and Goals

The main purpose of the Women's Center is to fight sexual discrimination, to empower women, to include and provide services to women of all colors, roles, backgrounds, cultures and orientations, and to focus on women's health concerns. The Center works toward achieving these goals by advocating social justice, actively seeking the ending of oppression, and supporting women's individual growth and development.