{"id":646,"date":"2011-06-01T01:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T01:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=646"},"modified":"2011-12-09T04:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:09:42","slug":"rethinking-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/womens-resource-center\/rethinking-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rethinking Sex: Anonymous accounts of and about sexual harassment at Bowdoin College<\/em>, is a collection of student stories and opinions from 1987 (Document CS, 66). One imagines that women wrote the majority of the stories, as most describe heterosexual encounters between men and women, with men as the aggressors. Part of Rethinking Sex Week, the publication accompanied an open forum.<\/p>\n<p>By 1987, women had been at Bowdoin for over fifteen years and the Women\u2019s Resource Center had been open for seven years. However, this may have been one of the first times issues of sexual harassment were addressed so publically. The safe environment of the Women\u2019s Resource Center provided community and may well have raised consciousness sufficiently that women found the courage to share their stories publically albeit anonymously. The variety of stories in <em>Rethinking Sex<\/em> shows the differing and contradictory perspectives on sex in the Bowdoin community in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The means of educating Bowdoin students on issues of sexual harassment or sexual assault through sharing of anonymous personal stories remains an important part of life at Bowdoin today. In the fall of 2009, a new performance became an annual part of first-year orientation. <em>Speak about it<\/em> originated from stories in <em>Speak<\/em>, a more modern version of <em>Rethinking Sex. Rethinking Sex<\/em> may have started a trend in educating the Bowdoin community around these issues. <em>Speak<\/em> and<em> Speak about it<\/em> are also important elements of the Women\u2019s Resource Center\u2019s role on campus today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-651\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-651\" title=\"CS66-1 - Rethinking Sex\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/cs66-1-rethinking-1.jpg\" alt=\"CS66-1 - Rethinking Sex\" width=\"650\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/cs66-1-rethinking-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/cs66-1-rethinking-1-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CS66-1 - Rethinking Sex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-652\" title=\"CS66-2 - Rethinking Sex\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/cs66-2-rethinking-2.jpg\" alt=\"CS66-2 - Rethinking Sex\" width=\"650\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/cs66-2-rethinking-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/files\/2011\/12\/cs66-2-rethinking-2-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CS66-2 - Rethinking Sex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rethinking Sex: Anonymous accounts of and about sexual harassment at Bowdoin College, is a collection of student stories and opinions from 1987 (Document CS, 66). One imagines that women wrote the majority of the stories, as most describe heterosexual encounters between men and women, with men as the aggressors. 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