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Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice
Oct 31 2024
In a time when essentialist narratives are all too often imposed, "Women, Faith, and Family" challenges the dominant understanding of women’s rights in Muslim societies, recognizing faith-based activism as a powerful force in shaping gender discourse.
Making Television Feminist
Mar 12 2024
By Jennifer S. Clark, author of Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's LiberationWhen I started writing a book about the women’s movement and television, I imagined that it would explore how feminism changed what Americans saw on their TV screens. But as the project developed,
Q&A with Cynthia Enloe, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War
Sep 19 2023
Author and activist Cynthia Enloe ©Kristinn Ingvarsson"Twelve Feminist Lessons of War should be treated as a celebration of Enloe’s groundbreaking work."—Megan MacKenzie for The World TodayNamed a "Top 10 Book for International Women's Day" by International AffairsRenowned scholar-activi
Q&A with Diana W. Anselmo, author of A Queer Way of Feeling
Apr 11 2023
Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intim
Decolonization is Women’s Work
Mar 08 2023
March 8, 1950—International Women’s Day—Marked the Embrace of a Feminist Battle Against ImperialismThis post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square and is reposted here with permission.By Elisabeth B. Armstrong, author of Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist C
What Imperfect Victims like Sally McNeil Show us About the Criminal Justice System
Dec 15 2022
By Leigh Goodmark, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition FeminismSally McNeil, like many of the people featured in my new book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, is an imperfect victim.The subject of th
Honig’s Bacchae / Euripides’ Theory of Refusal: A Special issue of Classical Antiquity
Dec 14 2022
"For decades now, classicists have been engaged in an agonized internal debate about the relevance of our subject. How do we take what we do and make it more inclusive? more vibrant? more engaged with the contemporary world?"
Q&A with Janet Garcia-Hallett, author of Invisible Mothers
Nov 04 2022
Janet Garcia-Hallett, an Afro-Latina mother, first-gen scholar, and a product of Harlem, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences. For the annual American Criminology Society conference, she discusses h
Recommended Reading: Muslim Feminism
Aug 23 2021
UC Press is spotlighting books that provide context to the struggles and solidarity of women in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and beyond. These books delve into the histories of Muslim feminism past and present as their activism shapes not only the local but also the geopolitical in an uncertain fut
The Overdue Recognition of Lorraine O’Grady, Trailblazer of the Conceptual, Black Feminist Avant-Garde
Apr 20 2021
A look into the work and career of artist Lorraine O'Grady is also a chronicle of the art world's exclusionary politics. As Cassidy George writes in an article for Vogue: "O’Grady—both then and now—saw the city’s art scene for what it was: an elitist world defined by hierarchies of race, gender, and