Category: Women’s Studies

March 14, 2018

Q&A: Susan Fraiman on the Notion of Domesticity

“Domesticity for the homeless is never entirely missing, though it may certainly be shattered, incomplete, and cobbled together.” In celebration of Women’s History Month, this week one of our featured titles is Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, by Susan...

March 13, 2018

Extreme Domesticity: A Book Review By Andrea Fontenot

This week, one of our featured books is Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, by Susan Fraiman. Today, we are happy to present a review by Andrea Fontenot that originally appeared in 4columns.org. Enter our book giveaway by Friday at 1 PM for a...

March 7, 2018

Book Excerpt! Diana Trilling on the 1968 Columbia University Protests

Perhaps this was the act of courage he was facing all his life, and Diana replied: “Perhaps the act of courage he was facing all his life was to stay alive.” —LIONEL TRILLING, JOURNAL ENTRY, 1961 (RE: HEMINGWAY’ S SUICIDE) This week,...

March 1, 2018

More Than a Decade of Publishing on Feminism and Gender

It’s Throwback Thursday and the first day of Women’s History Month. Did you know that Columbia has been a leader in gender studies, queer studies, and feminist theory since the publication in the 1980s of now-classic works such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men and...

March 3, 2017

A Media Roundup for Tainted Witness

Catch up on the media coverage of TAINTED WITNESS: WHY WE DOUBT WHAT WOMEN SAY ABOUT THEIR LIVES, by Leigh Gilmore!

March 2, 2017

Extreme Domesticity

Read an interview with Susan Fraiman, author of EXTREME DOMESTICITY: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS!

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.

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.”

March 8, 2016

Happy International Women's Day!

Happy International Women’s Day! In celebration of women, we’ve listed a few feminist titles that might interest you, reader. This short selection highlights a few gender studies classics, biographies, and a book about Indian surrogate mothers.

February 26, 2016

Images from "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

See works by graphic memoirists included in Tahneer Oksman’s new book.