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Education

25 Alternatives to Penis Envy

A Preliminary List

January 12, 2017 • by Elizabeth Harnarine Wentling

Penis envy is a catchy term, which is one reason it effectively made its way into popular culture. Coined in Freud’s 1925 Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes, it is widely misunderstood to mean, or used to perpetuate, the idea that those who posses a penis ...

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Time for Resolution

This Year We Save Democracy

January 11, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

New Year’s resolutions are a curious ritual. Each year we promise to change, even as we can’t help but recall last year’s resolutions and measure how far we’ve fallen short. Human beings are by and large procrastinators. We typically postpone any significant change until it’s almost too late -- until ...

Education

Warehouse of Identities

A Neoliberal Delusion

January 9, 2017 • by Florian Endres

Feminism & Capitalism Has second-wave feminism as an epochal social phenomenon unwittingly supplied key ingredients to the new spirit of capitalism named neoliberalism? This is the troubling question Nancy Fraser asks in her lecture Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History.[1] At stake is the possibility that the cultural changes jump-started by ...

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Was Donald Trump Elected Because He Is Laughable?

Reflections on Trump and Sovereignty

December 21, 2016 • by Dimitris Vardoulakis

Flying over the Pacific to return to Sydney after six weeks in the US, conversations with my friends in New York in the aftermath of the November 8 election run through my head. There was a strong sense of bafflement, even incomprehension, at Donald Trump’s victory. It was mystifying that ...

Was Donald Trump Elected Because He Is Laughable?

Good Luck for America

Thoughts on a Trump America from a Muslim Woman

December 17, 2016 • by Anum Nawaz

“Good luck for your stay in America” I heard. “I will be safe!“ They heard. “You never know, if Trump gets elected” came the reply. “Oh well, then I guess I will be back sooner,” said I. And we all laughed. It’s hard to believe that a political joke enjoyed just 4 months ago, turned ...

Race

Donald’s Dick

A Man Against the Institutions

November 4, 2016 • by Roger Friedland

This election is about the sex of state. In the eyes of millions of his supporters, particularly the men who would make him President, America’s manhood is at stake. Donald Trump is running as an erect phallus, a sexually aggressive man who can break through the forms, crush our enemies ...

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

Education

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 ...

Education

The Postcoloniality of Gender

October 27, 2016 • by Esther Franke

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. To elucidate further the connection among (post)colonialism, gender, and domination, two texts in particular come to mind: Chandra Mohanty’s “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” from 1984 and M. Jacqui Alexander’s “Not Just (Any)Body Can Be A ...

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The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

October 21, 2016 • by Simon Critchley

This submissions was part of the #PurpleReigns: A Tribute to Prince event hosted at the New School, Friday, September 23rd. Thanks to Aly and especially Pam Tillis. I want to thank Pam. We did a David Bowie event here at the New School in February which was very moving and a ...

Donald Trump and Rape Culture

October 19, 2016 • by Matthew Filner

“This was locker room talk.” So began Donald Trump’s response, in the Second Presidential Debate, to being questioned about his sexual assault boasts in the now infamous Access Hollywood tape. Trump immediately moved to talking about what he called “more important things”: the danger of ISIS, and what he would ...

Education

The Plurality and Quasi-Anarchism of Drag

October 6, 2016 • by Sarah Chant

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. I am often told that the subject of my research, drag -- as a pastime, a spectacle, a performance, or an art form -- makes some people “uncomfortable.” The reasons offered as explanation range from (legitimate) concerns about transphobia ...