Sara Hayden is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Sara has been involved in the women's studies program since her arrival at UM in 1994. She teaches several women's studies content courses, including COMM 380-Gender and Communication, COMM 480-The Rhetorical Construction of "Woman" and COMM 481-The Rhetoric of U.S. Women's Activism, 1960-present. Currently she is serving as co-director of the Women's Studies Program.
Professor Hayden's research focuses broadly on the rhetoric of gender, sexuality, and maternity. She has published essays exploring the differences and similarities between contemporary sexuality education texts; women's uses of maternal appeals in the Million Mom March; the work of early birth control advocate Margaret Sanger; the suffrage rhetoric of Montana Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin; and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves. Sara also serves as editor of the journal Women's Studies in Communication.
