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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 ...

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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 ...

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A Global Strike for a Global City

A call to action on March 8th

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

New York City is often called the “center of the world”, the multicultural and multiethnic city, the city that never sleeps, the big apple loved by tourists and film-makers. But a different reality hides behind the glitter and the glamour. It is the reality of the exploited labor of millions ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Desy: Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 5, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

In this project, IWS-NYC members perform interviews with women organizers from worker centers and cooperatives, as part of a process of militant knowledge co-production. We are particularly interested in unpacking the conditions that both enable and limit autonomous labor organizing and self-determination, as well as the way in which feminist ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Desy: Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) (Español)

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 5, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...