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The Dishonest Images of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Anti-abortion activists don’t seem to care about what a fetus actually looks like

June 27, 2019 • by Laura Hooberman

The advertisement incorporates a number of visual and discursive strategies commonly deployed by abortion rights opponents. It relies, for instance, on oversimplified and misleading rhetoric as the vehicle for its messaging, a tactic identifiable across the spectrum of anti-abortion propaganda. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a fetus is incapable of feeling ...

The New School

Horace Kallen and the Jewish Roots of The New School

The longest-serving member of the faculty was instrumental in helping Alvin Johnson to organize the University in Exile in 1933

June 27, 2019 • by Matthew J. Kaufman

Kallen's name, it seemed, was indelibly connected to the New School. And yet, it was only an accident of circumstance that this was so. Horace Kallen was among the first lecturers at the New School in Spring of 1919. Probably no one was more surprised at this than he. Beginning in ...

Horace Kallen and the Jewish Roots of The New School

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Transsexuality as an Emotional Situation, Aesthetics and a State of Mind

A question of difference.

June 27, 2019 • by Oren Gozlan

--- The problem of sexual difference is, for obvious reasons, of paramount importance in the field of Trans Studies. Historically, the psychoanalytic clinic has leaned on the symbolic oppositions between phallic/castrated, masculine/feminine, and absence/presence in understanding sexual difference. Patricia Gherovici’s recent book “Transgender Psychoanalysis” speaks to the new generation of people ...

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Transgender Psychoanalysis

Lacan, sex, and sinthomes

June 26, 2019 • by Sheila L. Cavanagh

--- On April 20, 2016, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek described “transgenderism” as an attempt to undermine sexual difference. In other words, he contended that transpeople are reducing what is, for Lacanian psychoanalysis, an unavoidable sexual impasse to an identity-based human rights discourse (that fits nicely into the neo-liberal capitalist order).[i] He suggested that ...

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Being Against Biden

It is important to oppose him without demonizing him

June 25, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Everything that has happened since his entry has confirmed this judgment. On the one hand, Biden has tripped over a series of hot-button issues -- #MeToo, the Hyde Amendment, and now racially coded language -- with his unique combination of tone deafness and stubborn self-righteousness. On the other hand, he ...

Multi Media

Alan Brinkley, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Lesbian Cruises

Past Present Episode 185

June 25, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Columbia political historian Alan Brinkley -- a Ph.D. advisor to Neil and Niki and favorite undergraduate professor of Natalia – has died. Niki recommended Alan Brinkley: A Life in History, a collection of essays by some of his students, including Niki. Neil discussed Brinkley’s ...

Reviews

What’s Missing In Naomi Wolf’s ‘Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love’

The moment at which I genuinely threw the book across the room was thirty pages from the end.

June 25, 2019 • by Emily Rutherford

In 2013, when I heard Naomi Wolf give a talk about the Ph.D. research she was then pursuing at Oxford, my first reaction was panic. Twenty-three years old, I had recently completed what is still the most intense, all-consuming experience of my life: researching and writing a 75,000-word undergraduate ...

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Matters of Life and Sex

Trans-ing Psychoanalysis

June 25, 2019 • by Patricia Gherovici

In 2010, feeling the need to reflect upon the lessons I learned from my practice, I wrote a book about patients who identified as transgender entitled Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism. This book summarized my experience during a time of reform that ...

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Coming Out of the World

The 19th-century activist tactic that queers should reclaim (again)

June 24, 2019 • by Holly Jackson

In opposition to generations of concealment and shame, the story goes, the Stonewall protesters came out of the closet and into the streets, agitating for the decriminalization of homosexuality, but more broadly, for the social transformation of gender and sex. Indeed, “coming out” was a core strategy for the achievement ...

Education

Shakespeare on Helicopter Parenting

‘And so shall starve with feeding’

June 22, 2019 • by Luke Williams

Minor disagreements have been overshadowed by common findings; first, helicopter parenting is hyper-present, characterized by abundant parental support but only to craft a child's behavior and public image. And second, helicopter parenting hinders the child's ability to develop an autonomous character -- the ability to make critical, life-changing decisions, more ...

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Networking and Human Nature

A Lesson in Socializing Under the Rules of 21st Century Capitalism

June 22, 2019 • by Patrick Sheehan

A Lesson in Socializing Under the Rules of 21st Century Capitalism...

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How Stories Knock on the Inside of My Head

An interview with Alice Barber

June 21, 2019 • by Josh Maserow and Alice Barber

--- Public Seminar [PS]: Thank you for this wonderful, literary meditation on your therapeutic work. I was immediately struck by the gentleness and vulnerability of the voice and language you found to write about such delicate subject matter – childhood abuse, trauma, neglect, loss and environmental alienation. Can you remark on ...

Essays

The Dishonest Images of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Anti-abortion activists don’t seem to care about what a fetus actually looks like

Horace Kallen and the Jewish Roots of The New School

The longest-serving member of the faculty was instrumental in helping Alvin Johnson to organize the University in Exile in 1933

Transsexuality as an Emotional Situation, Aesthetics and a State of Mind

A question of difference.

Transgender Psychoanalysis

Lacan, sex, and sinthomes

Being Against Biden

It is important to oppose him without demonizing him

Alan Brinkley, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Lesbian Cruises

Past Present Episode 185

What’s Missing In Naomi Wolf’s ‘Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love’

The moment at which I genuinely threw the book across the room was thirty pages from the end.

Matters of Life and Sex

Trans-ing Psychoanalysis

Shakespeare on Helicopter Parenting

‘And so shall starve with feeding’

Networking and Human Nature

A Lesson in Socializing Under the Rules of 21st Century Capitalism

How Stories Knock on the Inside of My Head

An interview with Alice Barber

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