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Sex & Gender

Why Aren’t More Women’s Texts Translated into English?

A lack of attention from male translators, publishers and critics keeps literary fiction by women barely visible in English.

March 20, 2019 • by Dorothy Potter Snyder

In a U.S. market where over 70% of all books published in translation are by men, our compromise seemed necessary. It also felt a bit dirty. For women writers and their translators, our individual experiences of bias are supported by statistics. According to the 2017 VIDA Count, our texts compete in a ...

Sex & Gender

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

Feminism

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 ...

Sex & Gender

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 & ...

Sex & Gender

Social Construction Theory and the Transgender Turn

An Enlightened Conversation

May 29, 2018 • by Dora Suarez

In the introduction to her groundbreaking book Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective of Sexual Difference, Patricia Gherovici states: “Trans people’s experiences may force us not just to re-evaluate our notions of gender, but also to reconsider how we think about other forms of difference as it unravels identity as a construction.” ...

Social Construction Theory and the Transgender Turn

Feminism

Spinoza and Feminism Question the Structures of Domination

Is the mind-body problem a gender problem?

April 30, 2018 • by Eva Perez de Vega

Traditional theory on the mind-body problem has been mostly conceptualized by men. The historical debate found its most heated moment in the seventeenth century between Rene Descartes and Benedict De Spinoza; the first advocating for the superiority of the mind over the body, and the latter with his characteristic Monist ...

Spinoza and Feminism Question the Structures of Domination

Sex & Gender

In Between Her Legs

Theorizing feminine space

April 25, 2018 • by Ceilidh Webster

“There is no getting round the fact that each man and woman came out of a woman.” -- D.W. Winnicott, 1964 In her recent book Feminine Law: Freud, Speech and the Voice of Desire, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist Jill Gentile puts forth a call to name the vagina. Through rigorous analysis ...

Sex & Gender

Revisiting Bartky on Foucault

The production and discipline of femininity

March 21, 2018 • by Alexandra Tadros

In “Femininity and Domination,” Sandra Lee Bartky examines the underlying causes and effects of women’s subjugation in contemporary society. Though women are generally understood to have equal rights, oppression, she argues, does not have to involve “physical deprivation, legal inequality, nor economic exploitation” in order to have a systemic and ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Fighting for a Better World

The fight for abortion access is up to us

March 8, 2018 • by Kate Castle

“Life is winning in America.” Mike Pence’s words echoed across the national mall, where thousands of anti-abortion activists (antis) gathered for their annual March for life in January 2017. Since those early days in office, the Trump administration has delivered on its campaign promises, such as allowing states to deny Title ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Student Workers on the Line

The New School and its policy regarding student employees

March 8, 2018 • by Louisa Strothman

On the day of the International Women’s Strike, we offer an update on the situation of the student workers union at the New School. We are still here. We are still fighting. We stand strong in our commitment to participatory democracy and collective bargaining. SENS-UAW 7902 and the International Women’s Strike follow the vision ...

Feature

International Women’s Strike

March 8th 2018 will be the second IWS

March 7, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

March 8th, We Strike! New York is an affluent city, rich in many ways, a global hub of business, finance and commerce, and home for the highest number of billionaires. However, it is not the top 1% who keep this city alive, but the millions of workers. Their labor is essential ...