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Paternity 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 […]
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading: Biased Science, Foster Families, and Paul Ryan Gosling
A quick look at what caught the attention of BCRW Staff this week… The Medieval Roots of Todd Akin’s Theories, Jennifer Tucker Wesleyan University Professor of History and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Jennifer Tucker provides a historical overview of theories which promoted the idea that pregnancy “could stand for a woman’s consent to an alleged rape.” […]
Read MoreMark of Aggression: Disability Activists Arrested
Over at Waging Nonviolence, BCRW collaborator and speaker Ynestra King writes about the arrests of protestors at Gracie Mansion earlier this month. Sponsored by Occupy’s Disability Caucus, activists gathered to protest the Bloomberg administration’s opposition to making NYC taxis more wheelchair-accessible. Initially, non-disabled protestors were targeted for arrest while disabled activists, who were the principal organizers of the […]
Read MoreCall for Suggestions for The Scholar and Feminist 2013: Utopia
For over three decades, The Scholar & Feminist has taken a bold, critical look at the issues that matter most to feminist movements. Over the years, we have welcomed such visionary scholars, artists, and activists as Coco Fusco, Josephine Ho, Staceyann Chin, Majora Carter, Barbara Ehrenreich, Heidi Latsky Dance Company, and Lani Guinier, whose work […]
Read MoreEnvironmental Justice for the Bronx
This post is part of a series of reflections on the 37th annual Scholar & Feminist conference, held March 3rd, 2012 at Barnard College. The above video shows the Environmental Justice workshop Pam is responding to, featuring Elizabeth Yeampierre, Tanya Fields and Rachel Sapery James discussing their work in the EJ movement. As a staff member working at the Barnard Center […]
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