Category: Women’s Studies

October 26, 2010

Do You Know Graphic Women? — A Quiz Based on "Graphic Women," by Hillary Chute

In Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, author Hillary L. Chute explores the visual and verbal techniques of five acclaimed female cartoonists: Marjane Satrapi, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Alison Bechdel, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Lynda Barry. Think you know your graphic women?...

October 25, 2010

Hillary L. Chute Recommends Five Graphic Narratives

In her recently published book Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, Hillary Chute explores the aesthetics and politics of five acclaimed autobiographical comics by women. Three of those artists who she writes about in Graphic Women she also mentions...

August 3, 2010

Feminist Review discusses Forgetting Children Born of War

In a recent post the Feminist Review discusses R. Charli Carpenter’s new book, Forgetting Children Born of War. The book explores why the human rights community does so little to protect children born as a result of rape during war....

April 28, 2010

Kelly Oliver on ABC News to discuss Women as Weapons of War

Kelly Oliver author of Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media appeared yesterday on ABC News to talk about women in the military as well as to consider our fascination with female terrorists and suicide bombers. Oliver...

December 14, 2009

Sibyl Schwarzenbach on Huffington Post and Rorotoko

Sibyl Schwarzenbach, author of the just-published On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State, has recently contributed pieces to both Rorotoko and The Huffington Post. In “A Failure of Civic Friendship,” Schwarzenbach argues that the United States and its political...

January 15, 2009

The China Beat's 10 Best Books About Chinese Women in 2008

The China Beat has a very interesting list of the best books from 2008 on Chinese women, including two titles from Columbia University Press: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi; translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan...

October 30, 2008

Interviewing Cixous

The recently published White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics includes a variety of interviews with Hélène Cixous, providing rich, new perspectives on her work and her influential ideas. The book also includes dialogues with Derrida and Foucault. Interview...

March 31, 2008

Women's Letters

To close out National Women’s History Month we bring you a look at women’s history in their own words with a round-up of books featuring women’s letter writing. (For more titles in Women’s Studies.) Margaretta Jolly’s excellent study of how...

March 24, 2008

Margaretta Jolly in New York City to talk about women’s letters

From March 26 to 31 Margaretta Jolly will be in New York City to discuss her new book, In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism. You can see the full list of all author events, including Margaretta Jolly’s, on...

March 10, 2008

Book for National Women’s History Month: Women’s Religious History

We continue with our series of postings on books relating to National Women’s History Month with today’s look at women’s religious history. I’ve chosen one book to represent each of the four major religious traditions, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism....