Katie Gentile, Author at Public Seminar

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Give a Woman an Inch, She’ll Take a Penis

Backlash and the fragility of privilege

January 19, 2018 • by Katie Gentile

On February 8, 2018, The New School will host an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran will moderate a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal ...

Give a Woman an Inch, She’ll Take a Penis

Education

Gagging the Victims

Accusation as the real crime in campus sexual assault

July 26, 2017 • by Katie Gentile

The recent Title IX Listening Sessions of July 13 2017 sponsored by U. S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have prompted this week’s forum at Public Seminar. As part of the process, Secretary DeVos also hosted men’s rights activists who champion the cause of individuals claiming to be falsely ...

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Patriarchy Alive and Well: CDC Releases New Guidelines for Alcohol & Pregnancy

February 15, 2016 • by Katie Gentile

Earlier this week the United States Center for Disease Control (the CDC) released yet more guidelines for women of “reproductive age”. These guidelines take what could be seen as a draconian, or perhaps more bluntly, a misogynous stance of recommending that all women of reproductive age who do not ...

Patriarchy Alive and Well: CDC Releases New Guidelines for Alcohol & Pregnancy

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Affirmative Consent and Neoliberal Bodies

The individual yes vs. the social no

September 3, 2015 • by Katie Gentile

I am writing this with great relief as the “crisis” of sexual assaults on college campuses in New York State has finally been addressed through affirmative consent, or “yes means yes” legislation from Governor Cuomo. Having worked for years as the director of a college-based women’s center, having ...