Category: Women’s Studies

April 27, 2012

Sex and World Peace: Mapping the Places Where the War on Women Is Still Being Fought

In conjunction with her recent article in Foreign Policy, Valerie Hudson, author of Sex and World Peace, posted maps that dramatically depict the difficult conditions suffered by women in certain parts of the world. The maps focus on discrepancy in...

April 26, 2012

Valerie M. Hudson: What Sex Means for World Peace

In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Valerie M. Hudson, coauthor of Sex and World Peace, argues that the very best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy, or its ethno-religious identity;...

April 25, 2012

How the State Can Ensure Gender Equality: Sex and World Peace

“It is time, then, for power and responsibility to be married by states. Caregiving must count—really count—in the perspective of national governments.” In their book Sex and World Peace, the authors offer some top-down approaches to ensuring the security of...

April 24, 2012

Sex and World Peace: How Inequality of the Sexes Affects International Security

“Efforts to establish greater peace and security throughout the world might be made more effective by also addressing the violence and exploitation that occur in personal relationships between the two halves of humanity, men and women.” ~ authors of Sex...

March 9, 2012

International Women’s Day

Yesterday, March 8, was International Women’s Day, held every year as a celebration of the advances in women’s rights that have already been made and a reminder of the advances in women’s rights that are still to come. In honor...

March 1, 2012

Happy (Belated) Birthday to Judith Butler

February 24 was the birthday of famed philosopher Judith Butler. Butler is a prolific scholar of diverse interests. She has published important books on feminist and queer theory, modern French philosophy, literature and literary theory, political ethics, and Jewish philosophy....

January 19, 2012

Go Nomadic Now with Rosi Braidotti

Check out this great video for Rosi Braidotti’s Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti and the new edition of Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory:

October 28, 2011

Caryl Rivers Debates Single-Sex Education with the Headmaster of an All-Boys School

We conclude our focus on The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, by following up on yesterday’s post on single-sex education. Earlier this week, in a fascinating exchange, Caryl...

October 26, 2011

Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett Dispel Myths About Girls and Boys

On their website, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, authors of The Truth About Boys and Girls: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, challenge some myths concerning the ways in which girls and boys learn: Myth: Girls’ and boys’ brains are...

September 7, 2011

Interview with Lingzhen Wang, editor of Chinese Women's Cinema: Transnational Contexts

The following is an interview with Lingzhen Wang, author of Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts. Question: How influenced were Chinese women directors by the sexual revolution happening in the ’70s in the Western world? Lingzhen Wang: Not that much at...

April 21, 2011

Hillary Chute and Lynda Barry

Thanks to Lynda Barry for holding up Hillary Chute’s book, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. The photo was taken shortly before Hillary Chute moderated a conversation on comics with Barry and Alison Bechdel at a recent event at...

December 3, 2010

Hillary L. Chute and Lynda Barry to discuss Graphic Women

Hillary L. Chute, author of the newly published Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics will be participating in a roundtable discussion on the art of the graphic novel this Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM at the Philoctetes...