Josephine Baker: A Century in the Spotlight
Contributors include Daphne A. Brooks, Maryse Condé, Jonathan P. Eburne, Geneviève Fabre, Michel J. Fabre, Terri Francis, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Kaiama L. Glover, Terri J. Gordon, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson, Margo Jefferson, Walter Kalaidjian, Anthea Kraut, Felicia McCarren, Claudine Raynaud, and Tyler Stovall.
Women, Prisons and Change
Contributors include Patricia Allard, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Janet Baus, Ava Berkofsky, Angela Y. Davis, Michelle Fine, Madeleine Gavin, Tamar Goelman, Rebecca Haimowitz, Chino Hardin, Dan Hunt, Carol Jacobsen, Judith Katz, Kathryn R. Kent, Alex Lee, Vivian Nixon, Sister Helen Prejean, Andrea Ritchie, Deborah Peterson Small, Ellen Spiro, Julia Sudbury, Gary Sunshine, María Elena Torre, Ije Ude, Jan Warren, Kay Whitlock, Reid Williams, and Rebecca Young.
Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance
Contributors include Gwendolyn Beetham, Tracy L. M. Kennedy, Hosu Kim, Patricia G. Lange, Mary C. Matthews, Shireen Mitchell, Chris Nolan, Tedra Osell, Clancy Ratliff, Deborah Siegel, Shira Tarrant, Rebecca Traister, Jessica Valenti, Marie Varghese and Gillian Youngs.
Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations
Contributors include Katya Gibel Azoulay, Maya Barzilai, Shifra Bronznick, Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Sally Gottesman, Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross, Jayne K. Guberman, Judith Hauptman, Rachel Havrelock, Elizabeth Holtzman, Paula Hyman, Lisa Jervis, Faith Jones, Norma Baumel Joseph, Sarah Karpman, Irena Klepfisz, Lori Lefkovitz, Laura Levitt, Khadijah Miller, Gina Nahai, Judith Plaskow, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Judith Rosenbaum, Joan Roth, Danya Ruttenberg, Naomi Scheman, Nancy Schwartzman, Eve Sicular, and Alisa Solomon.
Feminism and Sexual Health
A major theme of feminism is a woman’s right to her own body, particularly to make decisions about her own health and wellbeing. Access to information is integral to a woman’s ability to make important decisions regarding her health. The following documents, which date from 1970-1999, demonstrate how women’s organizations have worked to distribute much-needed information about women’s sexual health. Information that was otherwise unavailable or inadequate became accessible in resource guides, newsletters and pamphlets written for (and by) diverse groups of women. Addressing such issues as safe sex, teenage pregnancy, lesbians and AIDS, advancements in reproductive technologies, contraceptives, and reproductive health, these publications have empowered women to make well-informed decisions about their own bodies.
The Cultural Value of Sport: Title IX And Beyond
Contributors include Jo Ann Buysse, Margaret Carlisle Duncan, E. Gordon Gee, E. Grace Glenny, Tina Sloan Green, Leslie Heywood, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Karla FC Holloway, Janet Jakobsen, Donna Lopiano, Laurie Priest, Anna Quindlen, Don Sabo, Catharine R. Stimpson, and Jane Victoria Ward.
Writing a Feminist’s Life: The Legacy of Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Contributors include Leila Ahmed, Mary Ann Caws, Ann Douglas, Joan Ferrante, Susan Gubar, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Shirley Geok-Iin Lim, Deborah E. McDowell, Nancy K. Miller, Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Victoria Rosner, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Susan Winnett, and Margaret Vandenburg.
Women’s Prison Activism
With the number of individuals in prison rising at unprecedented rates, it’s clear that the current law enforcement policies in the U.S. need to be reexamined and reevaluated. Incarcerated women are a segment of this population who have remained even more invisible than their male counterparts. Few have bothered to ask who these women are, how they end up in prison, and what type of support they need to resume their lives after their sentences are served. What happens to the children and families of incarcerated mothers? How have women been disproportionally targeted in the “War on Drugs?” What types of alternatives to incarceration will benefit communities? The documents shown here, reflecting almost 30 years of advocating for incarcerated women, are the work of the organizations and individuals who dared to challenge the current system by asking these questions and many more.
The Scholar & Feminist XXX: Past Controversies, Present Challenges, Future Feminisms
Contributors include Meena Alexander, Dorothy Allison, Amrita Basu, Alison Bernstein, Elizabeth Bernstein, Siobhan Brooks, Leslie Calman, Tammy Rae Carland, Staceyann Chin, Ann Cvetkovich, Leslie Feinberg, Rebecca Haimowitz, Amber Hollibaugh, Janet Jakobsen, Temma Kaplan, Surina Khan, Jenny Kern, Elaine Kim, Rachel Maddow, Terry O’Neill, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Ransby, Kumkum Sangari, Heisoo Shin, Lateefah Simon, and Faye Wattleton.
Jumpin’ at the Sun: Reassessing the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston
Contributors include Esinam Bediako, Valerie Boyd, Peter A. Campbell, Elvita Dominique, Ann duCille, Danielle Evans, Sheen Gordon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, David J. Johns, Carla Kaplan, Leah King, Anthea Kraut, David Krasner, Bendita C. Malakia, Monica L. Miller, Marlysha Myrthil, Alice Walker, Cheryl A. Wall, Nikole Williams, and Alexandria Wright.
Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence
This collection brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence.
Feminist Television Studies: The Case of HBO
Contributors include Kim Akass, Daphne Gottlieb, Stephanie Harzewski, Lisa Johnson, Katherine Lee, Janet McCabe, Beth Montemurro, Cristy Turner, and Sherryl Wilson.
Young Feminists Take on the Family
Contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Laura Coats, Rory Dicker, Ayun Halliday, Heather Hewitt, Anastasia Higginbotham, Lisa Johnson, Alison Piepmeier, Vanessa Raney, Amy Richards, Deborah Siegel, and Jessica Valenti.
Reverberations: On Violence
Contributors include Ida Applebroog, Karen Beckman, Elizabeth A. Castelli, Gaye Chan, Sue Coe, Neta Crawford, Lisa Duggan, Cheri Honkala, Lisa Kahane, Suzanne Lacy, Winona LaDuke, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Kate Rhee, Eric Runions, Dread Scott, Meredeth Turshen, Jody Williams, Daphne Wysham, and Emna Zghal.
Public Sentiments
Contributors include Nieves Ayress, Jean Carlomusto, Mary Marshall Clark, Anne Cubilié, Ann Cvetkovich, Judith Halberstam, Roger Hallas, Alyssa Harad, Marianne Hirsch, Sharon Holland, Jonathan Kalb, Sarah Jones, Rachel C. Lee, Daphne Lei, Peter Lucas, Meg McLagan, Lorie Novak, Ann Pellegrini, Jorge Ramos, Janelle Reinelt, Steven Reisner, Jane Rosett, Rebecca Schneider, Anna Deavere Smith, Kathleen Stewart, and Jason Tougaw.
Changing Focus: Family Photography and American Jewish Identity
Contributors include Marlene Booth, Michelle Citron, Muriel Hasbun, Marianne Hirsch, Joanne Leonard, Laura Levitt, Lorie Novak, and Ruth Ost.
Margaret Mead’s Legacy: Continuing Conversations
Contributors include Mary Catherine Bateson, Elaine Charnov, Faye Ginsburg, Bridget Hayden, Nancy Lutkehaus, Michaela di Leonardo, Emily Martin, Marcyliena Morgan, Esther Newton, Rayna Rapp, Judith Shapiro, and Lesley Sharp.
Writing Towards Hope: Literature, Art, & the Struggle for Human Rights
Contributors include Mahnaz Afkhami, Marjorie Agosín, Meena Alexander, Diana Anhalt, Ruth Behar, and Judy Dworin.
Class, Race, and Sex: The Dynamics of Control
A collection of essays based on the Scholar and Feminist Conference VII, “Class, Race, and Sex: Exploring Contradictions, Affirming Connections,” and VIII, “The Dynamics of Control,” organized by BCRW and held in New York City in April 1980 and April 1981.
The Future of Difference
The essays in this volume are drawn from The Scholar and Feminist Conference VI: “The Future of Difference,” a conference sponsored by BCRW and held in New York City on April 29, 1979.