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Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations
We understand neoliberalism as an economic, political, and cultural shift that has produced a global activist response. As a set of macroeconomic policies, neoliberalism prioritizes a free-market model of growth that rests on deregulation, free trade, privatization, and retrenchment of state-provided social services … They have intensified the struggles for daily survival in which the […]
Read MoreDana Goldstein, Renina Jarmon & Courtney Martin on Sites of Digital Community
In preparation for tomorrow’s Digital Community Roundtable, a few of our panelists share their favorite sites of digital community below. Dana (@DanaGoldstein): My favorite digital community is Twitter. I know that is broad, but when I think of digital community, that’s what I think of. Of the various publications I write for, I think Slatedoes the best job of […]
Read MoreHere and Queer: The Short List
At the heart of just about any agenda is a to-do list. In honor of S&F Online’s New Queer Agendaissue, here’s a “to-read-and-watch” list of just a few sources that document contemporary queer political perspectives. The titles draw on archives of the past, experiences of the present, and anticipations of the future. You can explore many of […]
Read MoreAround Town: Upcoming Events this Friday, October 5th
In addition to BCRW’s Fall events, there are a number of exciting symposiums coming up that intersect strongly with BCRW’s interest areas, and some that include chances to see BCRW staff in action. Check out a few of these great events happening on Friday below, and let us know if you’re interested in blogging about any […]
Read MorePaternity Testing and Its Implications
How many of us have ever watched an episode of daytime talk show Maury where host Maury Povich brings on two men and a woman who has sexually transgressed, and conducts DNA tests to determine which man is “the real father” of her baby? How many of us have watched a young man celebrate on camera his newfound […]
Read MoreBodies Without Humanity: Remembering Trayvon Martin
I first heard of Trayvon Martin’s murder in a tweeted video clip. I followed the story, admittedly neglecting a few of my classes to pursue my interests in the case, through news articles, discussion panels, and more online video clips. I remember thinking as I made my way through the news coverage, why aren’t we […]
Read More‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Gender Discrimination
As a volunteer for BCRW this summer, Dana Freshley explored BCRW’s publications. In this post, she summarizes some of the central issues in BCRW’s second New Feminist Solutions report. BCRW’s New Feminist Solutions report, Women, Work, and the Academyexplains that gender discrimination did not disappear with the civil rights movement. The many protests in the 1960s and the passage of the law […]
Read MoreRacial Inequality in Schools: Review of the Premiere of “40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk?”
Last Thursday, September 13, Barnard College hosted the premiere of 40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk?, a film directed by Markie Hancock and produced by Lee Anne Bell, the Director of Education as Barnard College. Both of these women, joined by Fern Khan, Monica Miller, and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz discussed the film and its implications. 40 Years […]
Read MoreUpcoming Event: Digital Community Formation
BCRW is excited to kick off our Digital Impact Series on Tuesday October 9th, with the Digital Community Formation Roundtable. We’re bringing together several academics, bloggers, and journalists – including Jon Beller, Brittney Cooper, Gail Drakes, Dana Goldstein, Renina Jarmon, and Courtney Martin – to talk about what they think about digital community, how they build […]
Read MoreDomestic Workers Rights Are Women’s Rights
This post originally appeared on the Ms. Magazine blog, and is re-posted here with the author’s permission. Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) has a big decision to make for the cause of women’s rights. On his desk at the moment is a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights that recently passed both houses of the California legislature. The […]
Read MoreParadise on Earth: Shulamith Firestone and the Legacy of Reproductive Technologies
Last week, feminist visionary Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, died at the age of 67. As Sarah Franklin discussed in her essay “Transbiology: A Feminist Cultural Account of Being After IVF”: Firestone is of course famous, or infamous, for her advocacy of new reproductive technologies as a means […]
Read MoreExpanding the Scope of What Women Can Say
This post responds to several questions we sent filmmaker and psychologist Jan Haaken about her work. Professor Haaken will deliver BCRW’s Silver Fellowship Lecture on October 23rd, 2012, and will have a private educational screening of Mind Zone on October 24th, 2012, at Barnard – email bcrw@barmard.edu for details. On the Margins My clinical experience has been important in accessing and […]
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