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Freud and Irigaray in Grey Gardens

Penis Envy as Male Phantasy

November 15, 2016 • by Florian Endres

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. The American documentary Grey Gardens, directed by the Maysles brothers, is a celebrated landmark of its genre. The viewer enters the life of Edith “Big Edie” Beale and her daughter Edith “Little Edie” Beale. The peculiar couple lives in ...

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Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

June 6, 2016 • by Tiago Lima

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Despite their differences, various authors of feminist theory have been mobilized by a similar question regarding the subject of feminism -- more precisely, what kind of theory of the subject is most productive for the feminist debate? Ever since ...

Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

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Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

June 3, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. It’s no secret that feminism has undergone paradigmatic and (sometimes) unfortunate changes attributed to the gestures of the neoliberal turn. Nancy Fraser critiques the desaturated concern for social and gender justice that characterizes a new neoliberal feminism -- one ...

Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

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Donald Trump’s Reductio Ad Penis

March 17, 2016 • by Wayne Wapeemukwa

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. “Look at those hands; are they small hands?” the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination Donald Trump said during the debate on March 3, 2016. Trump added, “And, he referred to my hands -- ‘if they’re small, something else ...

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Canonized Thoughts, or Thoughts on the Canon

September 1, 2015 • by Angelica Stathopoulos

In 2013, I applied to the Graduate Program in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. I had for some time nourished a persistent fantasy regarding that specific program at that specific school. My fantasy regarded the canon. At The New School, I imagined, the philosophical canon is surely ...