Wayne State Libraries to host panel discussion and screening of Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’
From 4 to 6 p.m. on Nov. 12 in the Bernath Auditorium inside of the Undergraduate Library, the Wayne State University Libraries and professors from Wayne State’s history, communication and English departments will present a free screening and discussion of the 1989 BBC production of “The Yellow Wall Paper,” a film based on the 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
In the late nineteenth century, at a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to justify inequality between the sexes. Artist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story titled, “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” The famous tale served as an indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women's professional and creative opportunities.
This discussion will serve to familiarize the campus community with the story before the Nov. 18 opening of National Library of Medicine’s “The Literature of Prescription,” a six-panel traveling exhibition that will be on display at the Shiffman Medical Library through Dec. 28. For more information on the exhibit, visit the exhibition website at www.nlm.nih.gov/theliteratureofprescription/.
Father’s challenge to ‘one-parent doctrine’ before Supreme Court
A father’s constitutional challenge to Michigan’s one-parent doctrine — which allows a family court to take jurisdiction over children when one parent has been found to be unfit – is before the Michigan Supreme Court in oral arguments this week.
In In re Sanders, after the mother pled no contest to charges that she was an unfit parent, the family court ruled, over the father’s objections, that the children would remain with a relative. While the father had not been adjudged to be an unfit parent by a court, the family court concluded that, under the one-parent doctrine, the court had jurisdiction over the children by virtue of the mother’s no-contest plea, and could also order the father — who has a history of drug abuse and domestic violence — to comply with a service plan, including random drug screens and parenting classes. The father argues that the one-parent doctrine violates his constitutional rights to substantive due process and equal protection of the laws; the Michigan Department of Human Services opposes his appeal, noting in part that, in child abuse and neglect cases, the court’s jurisdiction is tied to the children and focuses on their protection.
The Court will hear oral arguments on November 6 and 7, starting at 9:30 a.m. each day. The Court’s oral arguments are open to the public; the Court also live streams its hearings at www.courts.mi.gov/Courts/MichiganSupremeCourt/oral-arguments/live-streaming/Pages/live-streaming.aspx. The Court provides summaries of the cases it will hear at www.courts.mi.gov/courts/michigansupremecourt/oral-arguments/pages/default.aspx.
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