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August 23, 2016

Dismantling Fantasies of Consent and Violence: Three Excerpts from Hunting Girls

“From fairytales to pornography, popular culture is filled with girls and women, unconscious or sleeping, ‘enjoying’ nonconsensual sex. And until we change our fantasies, it is going to be difficult to change our realities.”

August 23, 2016

Girls as Trophies: Introducing "Hunting Girls"

Read an excerpt from the introduction to HUNTING GIRLS: SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE HUNGER GAMES TO CAMPUS RAPE, by Kelly Oliver.

March 28, 2016

What Kate Did — On the Legacy of Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics"

“What Millett’s work showed were the ways that political action and cultural expression interpenetrate. Both sites of struggle were necessary to bringing about the “altered consciousness” that, for Millett, would mark a sexual revolution and bring ‘a world we can...

February 25, 2016

Tahneer Oksman on Writing a Jewish Book

Tahneer Oksman explains the scholarly and personal origins behind her new book “‘How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?’: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs”

November 17, 2014

Sex and World Peace: What’s Next

“Empower women and you enhance security in all its dimensions. Disempower women, and you undermine that security.”—Valerie Hudson The following post if written by Valerie Hudson, co-author of Sex and World Peace. My co-authors and I are very grateful that...

November 5, 2014

Gloria Steinem on Sex and World Peace

As part of her Reading Our Way to the Revolution, Gloria Steinem has selected Sex and World Peace book of the month. In the coming days, Steinem will be featuring the book and you can follow #GloriaReads for more updates....

June 5, 2014

Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti Meet Pussy Riot

In the following video of an event sponsored by The First Supper Symposium, Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler talk with members of Pussy Riot. Among other issues, the participant discussed when does public protest’s transgress the limited range of permissible...

October 18, 2013

Lynne Huffer's Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg on her Advice to Working Women

In an essay for Al Jazeera , Lynne Huffer, author of Are the Lips a Grave writes an open letter to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook corporation. Huffer considers the suggestions to rise up the corporate ladder from Sandberg’s new...

October 17, 2013

Huffer: The New Normal Not Good Enough

This week our featured book is Are the Lips a Grave? by Lynne Huffer. This whole week, we will share interesting articles related to the book and its author, Lynne Huffer. In a piece for the Huffington Post, Huffer writes...

October 17, 2013

Lynne Huffer on a Queer Feminist Ethics of Eros from "Are the Lips a Grave?"

This week our featured book is Are the Lips a Grave? by Lynne Huffer. In the following excerpt from the book, Huffer delves into the associations between sexuality and morality and the perspectives of queers and feminists on the ethics...

October 16, 2013

Lynne Huffer: Bigotry Didn't Die with DOMA, Neither Should Radical Queer Politics

This week our featured book is Are the Lips a Grave? by Lynne Huffer. This week, we will share articles related to the book and its author, Lynne Huffer. In a July 2013 Huffington Post article, Huffer discusses her reservations...