Feminism

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Sep

Q&A with Cynthia Enloe, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War

Renowned scholar-activist Cynthia Enloe’s new book Twelve Feminist Lessons of War lays out the lessons that women activists have drawn from their immediate experiences of war. Enloe draws on firsthand experiences of …

11

Apr

Q&A with Diana W. Anselmo, author of A Queer Way of Feeling

Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in …

08

Mar

Decolonization is Women’s Work

March 8, 1950—International Women’s Day—Marked the Embrace of a Feminist Battle Against Imperialism This post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square and is reposted here with permission. By Elisabeth B. Armstrong, author …

15

Dec

What Imperfect Victims like Sally McNeil Show us About the Criminal Justice System

By Leigh Goodmark, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism Sally McNeil, like many of the people featured in my new book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and …

14

Dec

Honig’s Bacchae / Euripides’ Theory of Refusal: A Special issue of Classical Antiquity

“For decades now, classicists have been engaged in an agonized internal debate about the relevance of our subject. How do we take what we do and make it more inclusive? more vibrant? more engaged with the contemporary world?”

04

Nov

Q&A with Janet Garcia-Hallett, author of Invisible Mothers

Janet Garcia-Hallett, an Afro-Latina mother, first-gen scholar, and a product of Harlem, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and …

23

Aug

The Overdue Recognition of Lorraine O’Grady, Trailblazer of the Conceptual, Black Feminist Avant-Garde

A look into the work and career of artist Lorraine O’Grady is also a chronicle of the art world’s exclusionary politics. As Cassidy George writes in an article for Vogue: “O’Grady—both then …

13

Oct

Author spotlight: Nicola Pratt on women’s activism in the Middle East

For this year’s virtual MESA conference, UC Press author Nicola Pratt joined us to talk about her book Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordon, and Lebanon and what the …

15

Sep

Shedding Light on Neglected Histories and Herstories of Radical Urban Communities: An Interview with LALVC Contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa

As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa to talk about her ALAA award-winning article “Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual …