Fall 2006

Feminism and Sexual Health

Curated by Laurie Sugatan '06

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.

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activism, health, policy, politics, pregnancy, reproductive justice, reproductive technology, science, sexuality, women's movement

Scholar and Feminist Online: 4.3
Summer 2006

The Cultural Value of Sport: Title IX And Beyond

E. Grace Glenny and Janet Jakobsen

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.

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academy, activism, education, gender, photography, policy, race, sexuality, sports

Scholar and Feminist Online: 4.2
Spring 2006

Writing a Feminist’s Life: The Legacy of Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Nancy K. Miller and Victoria Rosner

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.

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academy, barnard, education, emotion, gender, literature, transnational, writing

Spring 2006

Women’s Prison Activism

Curated by Lucy Trainor '07

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.

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activism, children, class, family, gender, intersectionality, parenting, policy, politics, prisons, race

Scholar and Feminist Online 3.3-4.1
Fall 2005

The Scholar & Feminist XXX: Past Controversies, Present Challenges, Future Feminisms

Janet Jakobsen & David Hopson

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.

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academy, activism, archives, arts, barnard, class, democracy, education, film, gender, history, human rights, intersectionality, labor, literature, media, music, photography, policy, politics, queer, race, scholar & feminist, sexuality, technology, transgender, transnational, video, women's movement, writing, young feminists

Scholar and Feminist Online: 3.2
Winter 2005

Jumpin’ at the Sun: Reassessing the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston

Monica L. Miller

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.

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academy, africana, anthropology, archives, arts, barnard, dance, education, history, intersectionality, literature, performance, race, writing

Book edited by Elizabeth Castelli and Janet Jakobsen
2004

Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence

Edited by Elizabeth Castelli and Janet Jakobsen

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.

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Scholar and Feminist Online: 3.1
Fall 2004

Feminist Television Studies: The Case of HBO

Lisa Johnson

Contributors include Kim Akass, Daphne Gottlieb, Stephanie Harzewski, Lisa Johnson, Katherine Lee, Janet McCabe, Beth Montemurro, Cristy Turner, and Sherryl Wilson.

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arts, family, gender, media, queer, sexuality, violence

Scholar and Feminist Online: 2.3
Summer 2004

Young Feminists Take on the Family

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

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.

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arts, childcare, children, domestic work, family, parenting, pregnancy, queer, transgender, work-life balance, writing

Scholar and Feminist Online: 2.2
Winter 2004

Reverberations: On Violence

Elizabeth A. Castelli

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.

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activism, arts, economic justice, gender, peace, photography, policy, politics, scholar & feminist, transnational, violence, war

Scholar and Feminist Online: 2.1
Summer 2003

Public Sentiments

Ann Cvetkovich and Ann Pellegrini

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.

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activism, afghanistan, archives, arts, emotion, gender, history, intersectionality, literature, peace, performance, photography, public feelings, queer, race, scholar & feminist, sexuality, transnational, video, violence, war

SF Online: 1.3
Winter 2003

Changing Focus: Family Photography and American Jewish Identity

Laura Levitt

Contributors include Marlene Booth, Michelle Citron, Muriel Hasbun, Marianne Hirsch, Joanne Leonard, Laura Levitt, Lorie Novak, and Ruth Ost.

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archives, arts, family, film, history, immigration, judaism, media, photography, religion, video