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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...

October 16, 2013

Laura Sjoberg — What’s Wrong with FETs? Thoughts from Gendering Global Conflict

The following is a post by Laura Sjoberg, author of Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War. “The deployment of Female Engagement Teams seems ridiculous to me as a feminist scholar—women are not to be essentialized or instrumentalized;...

August 21, 2013

Interview with Whitney Strub, author of Perversion for Profit (now out in paper!)

With Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right now available in paperback, we’re re-posting our earlier interview with the book’s author, Whitney Strub Question: Why “Perversion for Profit”? Won’t people think the book...

August 16, 2013

A Little Gay History — Protest and Rights

We conclude our week-long feature on A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by R. B. Parkinson, with a focus not on art and culture but politics. The images above and below are pins from the past...

August 15, 2013

Images from A Little Gay History

We continue our week-long feature on A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by R. B. Parkinson with some images from the book, which come from the collection at the British Museum. Working backwards in time, we...

August 14, 2013

Interview with R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History

The following is an interview with R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World. For more on the book, you can also read Parkinson’s blog post, Same-Sex Desire in the British Museum or...

August 13, 2013

R. B. Parkinson on Same-Sex Desire in the British Museum

The following post is by R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World: My own academic research concerns Ancient Egyptian poetry from around 1800 BCE and because some of these works deal with...

November 2, 2012

Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem, and Others on Sex and World Peace

“The very best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy, or its ethno-religious identity; the best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is how well its women are treated.“ ~ from Sex and...

October 18, 2012

From Shameful to Sexy — Kelly Oliver on Changing Representations of Pregnancy

“Pregnancy and pregnant bodies have gone from shameful and hidden to sexy and spectacular”—Kelly Oliver In From Shameful to Sexy, the introduction to Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films , Kelly Oliver examines the...

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Category: Gender Studies