Category: Subject

March 15, 2018

Q&A: Susan Fraiman on the Meaning of “Extreme Domesticity”

“I use the term “extreme” to jar us out of the common assumption that domestic spaces are always stable, banal, and conventional—invested in traditional family values and complacently bourgeois. The goal of my book is to trouble our stereotype of...

March 15, 2018

Q&A: Leon Hunt on Danger: Diabolik

This week, one of our featured books is Danger: Diabolik, by Leon Hunt. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Leon Hunt. Enter our book giveaway by Friday at 1 PM for a chance to win a free...

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 14, 2018

Reflections of a Student Movement

“What we learned during those six days of the building occupation was the transformative power of individuals working together in pursuit of justice” –Nancy Biberman Today, students across the nation are walking out of their schools and classes in protest...

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 6, 2018

Confessions of a Reluctant Revolutionary

During the campus protests of 1968, writer Phillip Lopate ’64CC, today a professor in the School of the Arts, joined an alumni group supporting the student radicals. Now, almost fifty years later, he’s still trying to make sense of his...

March 5, 2018

Book Giveaway! The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling

This week, our featured book is The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling, by Natalie Robin. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its authors on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Enter our book giveaway by Friday...

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...

February 26, 2018

Book of the Week! Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity

This week, our featured book is Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity, by Wendy Graham. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its authors on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Enter our book giveaway by Friday...

February 22, 2018

How Women Came to Matter in American Foreign Policy

We recently released a paperback edition of The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, which originally launched in 2015. Watch the original panel discussion and book launch at the Wilson Center. Remember...

February 21, 2018

How Sex Came to Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy

The United States has made empowering women and girls a cornerstone of our foreign policy, because women’s equality is not just a moral issue, it’s not just a humanitarian issue, it is not just a fairness issue; it is a...