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The Business of Being Made

March 8, 2016 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Two weeks ago The New School’s Ferenczi Center hosted Katie Gentile and a panel of contributors to celebrate the launch of a new book and a new series. The book, The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture, is the first to critically analyze ...

Adjusting the Lens on Rape Culture

September 10, 2015 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Notably absent from Zaretsky’s idyllic depiction of the college campus as an outpost of sexual freedom and experimentation is any discussion of the role of the drug and alcohol culture in such settings. Zaretsky’s campus thrums with intellectual and cultural exchange -- as he says, in classes, athletic and cultural ...

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 ...

Gentile (Katie)

The Business of Being Made

Adjusting the Lens on Rape Culture

Affirmative Consent and Neoliberal Bodies

The individual yes vs. the social no

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