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Trump, Freud, and the Puzzle of Femininity

Our fear of the feminine might be the great riddle of democracy

December 6, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

But our president is the Greatest Repudiator. Not only has he sought to repudiate the Paris Climate Accord, UNESCO, women’s reproductive rights, and Obamacare; he has also demonstrated that he is obsessed with repudiating everything Obama. He practically revels in ignoring if not dismissing democratic values we take for granted: ...

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A Woman’s Work

A Library of One’s Own

November 18, 2017 • by Sara Georgini

Read the news with a suffragist of 1913. Women’s rights advocates scanning the society page of the Atlanta Constitution on the morning of 4 June had a bevy of personas to peruse. There was the “Woman Shopper” gliding through a downy Eden of department stores: “Your presence, your influence and the wholesome atmosphere that ...

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40th Anniversary of the International Women’s Year Conference

University of Houston celebrates feminism then and now

November 14, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

From November 18 to 21, 1977, over 20,000 people gathered in Houston, Texas to celebrate International Women's Year and identify goals for women for the next decade. This was the first and only national women's conference to be sponsored by the federal government. On November 6 and 7, 2017, a few hundred people ...

40th Anniversary of the International Women’s Year Conference

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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser

A book excerpt from Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

November 7, 2017 • by Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

What has followed is a veritable revival of research on different aspects of capitalism (see, for example, Piketty 2013; Stiglitz 2013). While the movement away from the predominantly culturalist perspectives toward the register of materiality has been welcomed by many, this turn to the material sphere has not exactly been ...

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Why Do You Call Us Ladies?

History, gender, and manners in public life

October 18, 2017 • by Jessica Halem and Jen Manion

Consider the story of Abigail Adams and her most famous quote. When Abigail Adams asked her husband John to “Remember the Ladies” as he drafted the Declaration of Independence, she was not advocating for the rights of American women who were predominantly poor, indentured, and enslaved. Rather, she called specifically ...

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Full Frontal Feminism

Why Billie Jean King Made History in the Battle of the Sexes

October 9, 2017 • by Susan Ware

If only the 2016 election had turned out so well. “The Battle of the Sexes” puts its politics -- both feminist and sexual -- front and center, which is rather remarkable for a mainstream Hollywood offering. King takes on the male tennis establishment, personified by unctuous tennis promoter and former champion ...

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March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

Sept. 30, 2017 DC

October 4, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Black Women First! Black Women First! Shouted several thousand people as they marched up Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on September 30. They were leading two marches, which started at two different points on Capital Hill before joining to march to the Department of Justice on 10th St. There they planned to turn south to go to ...

March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

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The My Mother / My Self: Presidential Election of 2016

Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

September 17, 2017 • by Nell Painter

Bordo devotes three and a half early pages to Clinton’s appeal to women her age, and Bordo’s age, and mine -- we old women who still evoke wicked stepmothers, witches, shrill voices, and physical ugliness (18-22). In 2016, Democratic women divided by generation, with older women pro-Hillary and younger women ...

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DACA, Louise Hay, & an All-Female Lord of the Flies

Past Present: Episode 100

September 14, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate the White House's announcement to end DACA, the death of New Age guru and publisher Louise Hay, and the prospect of an all-female Lord of the Flies remake.

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DACA, Louise Hay, & an All-Female Lord of the Flies

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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

An Excerpt from Laura Briggs’ latest book

September 12, 2017 • by Laura Briggs

The Subprime Trump’s presidency has sometimes been portrayed as a historical earthquake, radically discontinuous from what came before. Who could have predicted that at a time of rising employment rates, white U.S. Americans would vote in economic resentment of the Democratic Party? How could one foresee a hostile takeover of the ...

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

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MS-13, R. Kelly, and Doctor Who

Past Present: Episode 95

August 22, 2017 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate the place of MS-13 in the history of street gangs, R. Kelly's sex cult, and the controversy over the first woman actor to play Doctor Who.

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The Body in Space/Trauma in the Body

A Review of Roxane Gay’s ‘Hunger’

August 17, 2017 • by Lynne Peskoe-Yang

Roxane Gay’s first book-length memoir, Hunger, is about space: the space that certain bodies are allowed to occupy, and the world’s response when they are unable or unwilling to fit inside it. In tender, explosive prose, Gay writes of the systemic medical dismissal and the social and sexual ostracism that ...