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I think… I don’t think… I really think…

The curious life of gender in the election of Donald J.Trump

December 26, 2016 • by Kate Foley

On October 24, 2016, Carol Gilligan hosted a panel discussion at The New School titled “Election Game Changer: Is Gender the Explosive issue?” With election day fast-approaching, Gilligan and her fellow panelists, Wendy Puriefoy, Janet Reitman, Esther Franke, and Ali Shames-Dawson, engaged in a lively exploration of the political landscape ...

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The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

December 22, 2016 • by Charles Innis

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On December 4th a man walked into a warehouse-sized pizza and Ping-Pong establishment in Washington D.C. armed with a rifle and fired it once. Nobody was harmed, though pizza patrons fled the business and the neighborhood was put on lock-down ...

The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

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Caitlyn Jenner: Our Pharmacapornographic Hero

December 22, 2016 • by Miranda Young

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. In April of 2015, Caitlyn Jenner came out as a transgender woman on Diane Sawyer’s 20/20. Formerly known as Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn’s identity before her transition represented the paragon of what it meant to “be a man.” Caitlyn was ...

Caitlyn Jenner: Our Pharmacapornographic Hero

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Is Abortion Candy?

Abortion is not a vice and every attempt to legislate it is a failure

November 30, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

Abortion worked its way into this past election, just like it did with every other election for the past few decades. Clinton said she believes in upholding Roe v Wade; Trump still wants to overturn it (but considers the question of marriage equality “settled”). In a series of debates that ...

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Second Redemption, Glass Ceilings, and Global Populism

Past Present Episode 59

November 21, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's special election episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate the onset of the Second Redemption, the highest and hardest glass ceiling, and the place of Donald Trump in global populism. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: We debated Jamelle Bouie’s argument that the 2016 ...

Second Redemption, Glass Ceilings, and Global Populism

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Politicizing and Practicing Motherhood

Why We Should Care What Phyllis Schlafly Served Her Kids for Breakfast

November 19, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

This article was originally posted at Process, the OAH blog, on October 18, 2016. “I’d like to burn you at the stake,” pioneering feminist Betty Friedan famously spat at conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly during a 1973 debate about the Equal Rights Amendment. Her loathing reflected the recognition of a formidable opponent. Though ...

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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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Women Count

November 15, 2016 • by Paula Landerreche Cardillo

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On Monday October 24, women in Iceland left work at 2:38 p.m. to protest the gender wage gap. The time was decided by calculating the gap percentage to the regular work day: Every day, the hours that women work ...

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Does a Successful Woman Need to Own a Gym Membership?

November 2, 2016 • by Elena Petrovska

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. I never thought that I’d be saying this, but I live in a fitness center. I don’t mean that I’m a gym rat, pumping iron and downing protein shakes. I actually live on top of a gym, otherwise known ...

Does a Successful Woman Need to Own a Gym Membership?

A Tale of Freud, Women’s Bodies and Male Dread

A Psychoanalyst’s take on Trump and Hillary’s Private Position

November 2, 2016 • by Victoria Malkin

We are repeatedly told election 2016 is no longer an issues-based election but a question of temperament and personality. Two weeks before voting day, America's choice of a new President had devolved into a referendum on authority, leadership and sex. We are choosing the leader we imagine we want, and ...

A Tale of Freud, Women’s Bodies and Male Dread

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What Is A Woman?

October 31, 2016 • by Sarah Chant

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. I thought it would be cheeky to start this response with the question present in all the readings for this course -- “What is a woman?” -- but, feeling unsure, I decided to do what any sophisticated academic might ...

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Sadism in Poland

The proposed abortion bill was an attack on women, nothing else

October 20, 2016 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

Since the beginning of Law and Justice Party (PiS) rule in Poland, the right-wing government has accustomed Poles to regulations that counter the principles of democracy (e.g. the Constitutional Tribunal) or human decency (nepotistic hires). This time, however, PiS has taken a step further, deciding to support a bill proposed ...