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Announcements

Ann Snitow Prize Awarded to Barnard Historian and Activist Premilla Nadasen

Nadasen’s work elevating the voices of poor and low-income Southern women has earned her the Prize’s inaugural award

December 16, 2020 • by Judith Levine

The Awards Ceremony will take place, via Zoom, on January 14 at 6 PM. It will feature a conversation about care work, race, and grassroots organizing between Professor Nadasen and the historian, writer, and longtime activist Barbara Ransby. Ann Snitow was a feminist writer and teacher best remembered for her critical ...

Ann Snitow Prize Awarded to Barnard Historian and Activist Premilla Nadasen

Sex & Gender

What Does the Idea of Misogyny Really Describe?

A response to Liza Featherstone

December 31, 2019 • by Eli Zaretsky

Often “misogyny” is used to refer to gender-based disrespect or misrecognition; in other w0rds, bad attitudes toward women publicly deployed. Here the term is a species of folk psychology, reflecting the word’s Greek root, hatred of women. Misogyny, in this usage, also signifies that this hatred, translated into action, is a moral wrong. In ...

What Does the Idea of Misogyny Really Describe?

Feature

The Dyer’s Hand

Ann Snitow’s retirement from The New School

August 13, 2019 • by Ann Snitow

Ann Snitow gave the following talk on the occasion of her retirement from The New School on April 9, 2019. In their introduction, the two current directors of Gender Studies, Margot Bouman and Lisa Rubin, pointed out that Snitow, now emeritus, had the distinction of having founded the Gender Studies ...

The New School

Sex for Fun: Reflections From Ann Snitow’s Przegorzały Classroom

Ann Snitow helped change the discussion around sexuality in Poland, and she also changed my life.

August 12, 2019 • by Agnieszka Kościańska

In 2017, I published a book about the history of sex education in Poland. To See a Moose describes how Polish sex education textbooks under state socialism and after dealt with sexuality related issues. Although in many ways progressive, these books treated sex elliptically. Instead of talking about sex, they were full ...

Education

Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)

University Lectures at The New School

January 29, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Elżbieta Matynia and I are teaching a special university wide course for undergraduates this semester, inspired by our favorite political thinker, Hannah Arendt, and her illuminating collection, Men in Dark Times. The course is a response to the present political moment. We, as did she, live in “dark times.” And as ...

Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)

Feature

Is There No Feminism With Capitalism?

Reading Public Seminar, Thinking about the Relationships between Gender Justice and Free Public Life

January 19, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The developing debate over #MeToo and the MeToo backlash raises critical questions concerning the broad and deep struggles for democracy and social justice, perhaps the most central: are gender justice and capitalism compatible? Many of my friends and colleagues think not. I disagree. My dissent from the leftist consensus of my ...

Multi Media

On Public Seminar’s Post Election Teach In

A Workshop on Social Resistance

December 7, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

We must and will move beyond shock and despair, and toward creative action. This is what I took to be the major theme of our Post Election Teach In Workshop on Social Resistance. I helped organize the event, trying to be hopeful in the face of my own sense of ...