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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser

A book excerpt from Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

November 7, 2017 • by Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

What has followed is a veritable revival of research on different aspects of capitalism (see, for example, Piketty 2013; Stiglitz 2013). While the movement away from the predominantly culturalist perspectives toward the register of materiality has been welcomed by many, this turn to the material sphere has not exactly been ...

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Girl Scouts, #MeToo, and HIV/AIDS

Past Present Episode 104

November 4, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the Girl Scouts in light of the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to admit girls, #MeToo activism, and how Michael Friedman’s recent death of HIV/AIDS helps us understand the illness in historical context.

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#MeToo, Trump, Weinstein, and the Problem of Individual Responsibility

Society is Guilty

October 30, 2017 • by Bryant William Sculos

More recently, actress Alyssa Milano tweeted that if all the women who have faced unwanted advances or assaults at the hands of the men in their lives tweeted or posted “#MeToo” on social media, maybe men would realize the ubiquity of this heinous problem that women face on a daily ...

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Why Do You Call Us Ladies?

History, gender, and manners in public life

October 18, 2017 • by Jessica Halem and Jen Manion

Consider the story of Abigail Adams and her most famous quote. When Abigail Adams asked her husband John to “Remember the Ladies” as he drafted the Declaration of Independence, she was not advocating for the rights of American women who were predominantly poor, indentured, and enslaved. Rather, she called specifically ...

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Full Frontal Feminism

Why Billie Jean King Made History in the Battle of the Sexes

October 9, 2017 • by Susan Ware

If only the 2016 election had turned out so well. “The Battle of the Sexes” puts its politics -- both feminist and sexual -- front and center, which is rather remarkable for a mainstream Hollywood offering. King takes on the male tennis establishment, personified by unctuous tennis promoter and former champion ...

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A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time

An extract from Kinneret Lahad’s recently published book

October 9, 2017 • by Kinneret Lahad

From Chapter 4, ‘Facing the horror: becoming an “old maid”’ Age and Singlehood In her analysis of single women in popular culture, Anthea Taylor (2012) proposes that the study of single women opens a window on how heteronormative and patriarchal frameworks operate in new and sophisticated ways. Inspired by Taylor’s study, I ...

A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time

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Kinneret Lahad Talks Singlehood and Time

An interview about her new book, A Table for One

October 1, 2017 • by Irit Dekel

What are you waiting for? Stop wasting your time. You will die alone. You will miss the train and stay on your own! These are just some of the questions and warnings that single women hear on a daily basis. Single women are constantly being asked whether they are ''still single,'' ...

Kinneret Lahad Talks Singlehood and Time

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Burdens and Disruptions

The Continued Relevance of Sylvia Rivera’s Trans Latino Activism

September 28, 2017 • by Gabriel Mayora

Responses to this discursive effort were swift. Within 24 hours, both professional news sites and users on social media began circulating a 2016 report on military spending commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense that disproved the president’s allegations. This report showed that medical treatments specific to transgender individuals represented, ...

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‘Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race’ by Clay Cane

A book review

September 23, 2017 • by Kevin Ewing

In 1991, filmmaker, educator, and gay rights activist Marlon Riggs told Outlook magazine: “When the existing history and culture do not acknowledge and address you -- do not see or talk to you -- you must write a new history, shape a new culture that will.” He called for Black lesbian and ...

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Chelsea Manning and America’s Trans Prisoners

What An Activist Might Have Taught at Harvard

September 18, 2017 • by Timothy Stewart-Winter

Manning, of course, is a uniquely polarizing figure, viewed by some as a traitor and by many others as a hero. Her selection as a Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School inevitably was going to draw howls of protest from her critics. Withdrawing the offer was equally certain to yield ...

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The My Mother / My Self: Presidential Election of 2016

Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

September 17, 2017 • by Nell Painter

Bordo devotes three and a half early pages to Clinton’s appeal to women her age, and Bordo’s age, and mine -- we old women who still evoke wicked stepmothers, witches, shrill voices, and physical ugliness (18-22). In 2016, Democratic women divided by generation, with older women pro-Hillary and younger women ...

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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

An Excerpt from Laura Briggs’ latest book

September 12, 2017 • by Laura Briggs

The Subprime Trump’s presidency has sometimes been portrayed as a historical earthquake, radically discontinuous from what came before. Who could have predicted that at a time of rising employment rates, white U.S. Americans would vote in economic resentment of the Democratic Party? How could one foresee a hostile takeover of the ...