Tag: women’s history

March 27, 2018

Joan Wallach Scott on the Enduring Culture of Masculinity

It’s no accident that conservative forces have mounted an anti-gender campaign, determined to protect their vision of the immutable meanings of the male/female, masculine/feminine relationship. It’s not only heterosexual norms that are at stake, but a whole vision of the...

March 22, 2018

Consent and Sexual Violence on College Campuses and Social Media

This week, one of our featured titles is Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape. Today’s post consists of excerpts on the topics of consent and sexual violence, authored by Kelly Oliver in The Philosophical Salon. Remember to...

March 21, 2018

Party Rape: An Excerpt from Hunting Girls

As long as college men continue to see women as sexual prey or trophies, rape will continue to plague college campuses. –Kelly Oliver As part of Women’s History Month, we have dedicated this month to highlighting titles about women’s issue. Today we...

March 20, 2018

Hollywood, Step Up!

There was a strong price to pay for being a tough independent teenage girl. Arguably, within the narratives of the films, their independence became the justification for beating the crap out of them. —Kelly Oliver At Columbia University Press, we...

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 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...