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Before I was a Patient, I was a Person: On Navigating the Health Care System as a Singleton
This post by Rachel A. R. Bundang, PhD, is part of a series of reflections on the 37th annual Scholar & Feminist conference, held March 3rd, 2012 at Barnard College. This year’s theme was “Vulnerability: the Human and the Humanities.” Struggling with life-threatening illness and undergoing treatment for it is, undoubtedly, a prime situation of precarity: […]
Read MoreA Time for Radical Thinking: Discussing the 5th World Conference on Women
“Don’t call it a women’s conference,” Dr. Anele Heiges remembers Gertrude Mongellainsisting, in the lead up to what would come to be know as the 1st World Conference on Women. “Everyone should be in on it.” That year, 1975, was the UN International Women’s Year, and the Mexico City based conference focused on women’s contributions to development […]
Read MoreThe Bishops, the Sisters, and Religious Freedom
BCRW Acting Director and Chair of the Barnard Religion Department Elizabeth Castellioffers her take on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops‘s published stance on the Affordable Care Act: Framing their opposition to the health care mandate in terms of religious freedom, it needs to be emphasized, is a strategic move that narrows the terrain significantly: to […]
Read MoreReflections on Vulnerability and Disability
This post by Ynestra King is part of a series of reflections on the 37th annual Scholar & Feminist conference, held March 3rd, 2012 at Barnard College. This year’s theme was “Vulnerability: the Human and the Humanities.” What I was most struck by at this conference is the complexity of vulnerability from the perspective of disability, […]
Read More“Predictable Failures” in the Trayvon Martin Story
Several of the panelists at Private Bodies, Public Texts: A Salon in Honor of Karla FC Holloway, which took place on March 21, 2012, the same night as the million hoodie march, spoke poignantly about the ways in which the themes of Holloway’s book apply in the case of Trayvon Martin‘s death. In particular, they address the painful […]
Read MoreWelcome to the BCRW Blog!
For over 40 years, the Barnard Center for Research on Women has served as a hub for feminist thought and action, providing a pivotal platform for activists and scholars to come to together and grapple with ideas pulled from local and global perspectives. To further this tradition of critical feminist dialogue, we are launching the BCRW Blog […]
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