Tag: women’s history month

March 12, 2020

Six Negative Effects of the Systematic Subordination of Women

“In The First Political Order, Hudson and her collaborators make the case that the subordination of women is irrefutably tied to the well-being of a nation. Skeptical? The hard data is here, drawn from an exhaustive survey of 176 countries in...

March 11, 2020

Learning to Doubt: An Excerpt from Tainted Witness, by Leigh Gilmore

“In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women’s testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how...

March 11, 2020

The Syndrome and the First Political Order

By Donna Lee Bowen

“The First Political Order is a magisterial tour de force that transforms our understanding of international relations. Hudson, Bowen, and Nielsen provide a comprehensive and meticulous examination of how the systematic subordination of women around the world affects every critical...

March 10, 2020

Q&A: Lynne Nielsen on Writing The First Political Order

“The First Political Order’s description of the pervasive damaging social consequences of institutionalized male dominance, based on a fascinating new dataset, makes devastating reading. The authors say that their findings should be foundational for any discussion about national or international...

March 9, 2020

Book Excerpt! Women Mobilizing Memory, edited by Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon

“This volume confirms a shift of paradigm in the field of memory studies, linking it now to the mobilizing force of historical imagination… Opposed to revisionism, these authors probe more deeply into the past than positivist histories have ever done,...

March 9, 2020

The First Political Order and Its Effects on Governance and National, Human, and Environmental Security

By Valerie M. Hudson

“From now on, there will be no more separating questions of politics and peace from the treatment of the females. Those days are over. Thanks to Valerie Hudson and her team of global researchers, we have a long, practical, intimate...

March 8, 2020

How the Harvey Weinstein Verdict Changed the Credibility of Women’s Testimony

By Leigh Gilmore

“In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women’s testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how...

March 8, 2020

Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times

By Ayşe Gül Altınay

“This is more than an extraordinary book—it is a fascinating journey around the world. It links the North and Global South through Europe, Chile, Turkey, and the United States in the name of innovative feminist practices able to rethink, reframe,...

March 6, 2020

Book Excerpt! Peace on Our Terms,by Mona L. Siegel (prologue)

“A stunning retelling of the Great War’s aftermath and how women rose up at the war’s end to demand a different and better world. Siegel’s evocative prose transports us back in time and around the world as women from east,...

March 5, 2020

Book Excerpt! Becoming Guanyin, Yuhang Li (introduction)

“Yuhang Li is, by training, an art historian. However, her take on Guanyin goes beyond the realms of art history. Li analyzes the female portrayal of Guanyin through paintings, material culture of embroidery, theatrical display of dance, archaeological objects, scripture,...

March 4, 2020

The Global History of the Nineteenth Amendment

By Mona L. Siegel

“A stunning retelling of the Great War’s aftermath and how women rose up at the war’s end to demand a different and better world. Siegel’s evocative prose transports us back in time and around the world as women from east,...

March 3, 2020

Yuhang Li on Becoming Guanyin

“Yuhang Li is, by training, an art historian. However, her take on Guanyin goes beyond the realms of art history. Li analyzes the female portrayal of Guanyin through paintings, material culture of embroidery, theatrical display of dance, archaeological objects, scripture,...