Category: Gender Studies

March 1, 2017

Introducing Extreme Domesticity

Read an excerpt from EXTREME DOMESTICITY: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS, by Susan Fraiman!

February 28, 2017

Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks

Read an excerpt from the introduction to TAINTED WITNESS: WHY WE DOUBT WHAT WOMEN SAY ABOUT THEIR LIVES, by Leigh Gilmore!

November 21, 2016

“Party Rape” and the Celebration of Lack of Consent

Kelly Oliver

Kelly Oliver, author of HUNTING GIRLS: SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE HUNGER GAMES TO CAMPUS RAPE, argues that celebration of the lack of consent is on the rise.

October 7, 2016

Is “Democracy” Nothing More Than a Slogan Now?

Read an article on the uses and misuses of the concept of “democracy” by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, coauthors of THROUGH VEGETAL BEING.

October 6, 2016

Plant Lessons

Read an article by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder on the need for an “environmental pedagogy,” including some of the lessons that plant life can teach us.

October 5, 2016

Toward an Ecology of Sharing

Read “Toward an Ecology of Sharing,” by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, coauthors of THROUGH VEGETAL BEING, an article that originally appeared on The Philosophical Salon.

October 4, 2016

Introducing "Through Vegetal Being"

Read prologues by both Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, authors of THROUGH VEGETAL BEING: TWO PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES!

August 26, 2016

Rape on Campus: The Title IX Revolution

Read an article on the role that Title IX can play in the fight against campus rape, by Kelly Oliver, author of HUNTING GIRLS: SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE HUNGER GAMES TO CAMPUS RAPE.

August 25, 2016

Social Media and the Lack of Consent

“Given the continued use of social media to target, harass, and humiliate young women, it is telling that these technologies were born out of sexist attitudes. In their inception, some of the most popular social media sites were designed to denigrate women.” — Kelly Oliver

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...