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From Bras to Bathing Suits

The 1968 Miss America protests were the most public announcement of the start of the women’s civil rights movement

September 9, 2018 • by Hilary Levey Friedman

Fifty years ago a group of women -- mainly from New York -- wanted to stage a very public demonstration about women’s rights. They didn’t choose a political locale (i.e. Supreme Court or White House) or an economic one (i.e. the Fed or Wall Street), instead selecting a cultural setting. ...

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Re-Dressing “No More Miss America”

The construction of fashion and feminism as antagonistic has been used to undermine the movement’s goals and to obscure fashion as a liberating political tool

September 9, 2018 • by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Fifty years ago, over a hundred women gathered on the boardwalk of Atlantic City to protest the Miss America Pageant. The demonstration, which was organized by the feminist group New York Radical Women (NYRW), protested the exploitative and racist nature of the pageant (black women were not allowed to participate ...

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Women’s Liberation Marches onto the Atlantic City Boardwalk

Photos of the 1969 Miss America Protest

September 8, 2018 • by Jo Freeman

In 1968 and 1969 women's liberation staged demonstrations at the annual Miss America Beauty pageant held in Atlantic City, NJ. The 1968 protest shocked the country, creating a lot of publicity, and some myths, about the new movement. The 1969 protest was smaller and was largely ignored. The 1968 protest originated with New ...

Women’s Liberation Marches onto the Atlantic City Boardwalk

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Michael Kimmel’s Learning Moment and Ours

A prominent professor’s rumored #HeToo behavior prompts a fundamental rethink about gender and ethics

August 27, 2018 • by John Stoltenberg

I first met Michael Kimmel in the early 1980s, when we moved in the same profeminist men’s movement circles. We were both starting out in our writing careers, trying to reckon with what feminist women were saying and trying to reconcile it with how we understood ourselves as men. I ...

Michael Kimmel’s Learning Moment and Ours

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Invitation to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1968 Miss America Protest

50 years ago Women’s Liberation protested the Miss America Pageant and threw

August 22, 2018 • by Carol Hanisch

We invite you to participate in an online version of this event. What do YOU want to toss into the 2018 Women's Liberation Freedom Trash Can? On September 7, 1968, more than 100 women descended on Atlantic City in New Jersey to protest the Miss America Pageant, that American ideal of femininity ...

Invitation to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1968 Miss America Protest

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Feminists Say

Gagging on rape

August 13, 2018 • by Vanessa Place and Cassandra Seltman

Last year the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality published a panel called "The ontology of the rape joke," organized around a performance by Vanessa Place of her piece, "Rape joke." The panel included responses from Jamieson Webster, Jeff Dolven, Gayle Salamon, Kyoo Lee, Katie Gentile, and Virginia Goldner, and ended with ...

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Ask a Feminist

Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo

August 8, 2018 • by Catherine A. MacKinnon and Durba Mitra

The following conversation was held over Skype on June 4, 2018. An edited transcript is below. Durba Mitra (DM): Today as part of Signs’Ask a Feminist series, I have the opportunity to speak about sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement with feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, a lawyer, writer, teacher, and activist who ...

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Feminist Economics Yoga

Political Interruptions, New Orientations & Collective Wishes for Bourgeois Hobby Time

July 26, 2018 • by Cassie Thornton

My work as an artist over the past decade has been defined by exploring the effects of financialization and debt on the imagination, in solidarity with anti-debt and anti-capitalist activist projects. I have, for instance, for many years been hypnotizing people to allow them to visualize their debt. This vision often becomes ...

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Petra Collins is Not Your Savior

A Female Gaze

July 2, 2018 • by Hannah Simpson

Petra Collins is the most celebrated, most talked about female identifying photographer/director of my generation. Throughout her career her style has been attributed to the rise of what some are calling “the female gaze”, as an alternative to the one typified by Laura Mulvey in her essay “ Visual Pleasure and Narrative ...

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The African Decolonial Thought of Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí

Black Issues in Philosophy

June 20, 2018 • by Lewis Gordon

Recently, the Nigerian sociologist Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí has earned her place among many of the living in conversation with this stellar community of ancestors by virtue of her contributions to contemporary African philosophy. Readers who haven’t heard of her should take this opportunity to familiarize themselves with her work. Oyĕwùmí specializes in ...

The African Decolonial Thought of Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí

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A Feminine Imaginary Without the Eye

Audio Pornography and Representational Politics

June 15, 2018 • by Kiyomi Ren Mino

Pornography follows us everywhere. What was once confined to stashed magazines and adult stores now streams freely on our laptops and phones. Motivated by what the freedom of pornography means for women’s liberation, I provide a commentary to Drucilla Cornell’s chapter, “Pornography’s Temptation” from her book, The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography & ...

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There’s Blood on Your Binary

The social and corporeal costs of gender dualism

June 13, 2018 • by Ceilidh Webster

“We are only ever better when we are many and varied.” Anna Julia Cooper A Voice from the South, 1898. More than a hundred years after they were written, Anna Julia Cooper’s words are both timeless and timely -- and yet the message has still not been received. Our world is one where we ...