Tag Archives: Academics
Feministing launches new column on feminism and academia
TweetWe’re thrilled to announce a very new exciting series starting today on feminism and the academy, The Scholarly Feminist! As some of y’all may know, there are some amazing feminist academics out there making some serious headway in issues around feminist thought, so our dear Feministing friend and new contributor Gwendolyn Beetham is going to [...]
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What’s a nice girl like me doing in a place like this?: women in philosophy
TweetThe ivory tower is certainly not considered the bastion of progressive thinking, despite the fact that students are often integral to many of the world’s great revolutions and social movements. Of the many and varied disciplines in graduate study, many are beginning to integrate race/class/gender analysis into their canons. Thank goodness (actually, we should thank [...]
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Academic feminists pay my mortgage
TweetMuch has been said and written about the academic-activist feminist divide. Some of us, such as our very own Samhita, have written about the ways in which academic feminism actually serves as a site of transformation. Others, including myself, have expressed feeling alienated by some of the more esoteric language and theoretical posturing that goes [...]
Michael Kimmel on male entitlement, anger and invisible privilege
TweetOn Wednesday night, I had the distinct pleasure of hearing a lecture from one of the giants in the study of men and masculinity, Michael Kimmel. Kimmel, who you might remember from his Feministing Five interview last year, has been studying and writing about gender for decades now and is about to release a collection [...]
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The Scholarly Feminist: Archiving with Kate Eichhorn