For people interested in feminist approaches to humanities subjects
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Donna Maria Alexander deposited CFP: Paranoia in the Americas: American Anxieties in a Transnational Context in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoCall for Papers
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Behnam Mirzababazadeh Fomeshi deposited “Till the Gossamer Thread You Fling Catch Somewhere”: Parvin E’tesami’s Creative Reception of Walt Whitman in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoThe literary relation between Parvin E’tesami and Walt Whitman remains a largely unexplored field. This article analyzes the connection between “God’s Weaver” and “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to shed light on Parvin’s creative reception of Whitman. Creating a mixed-breed spider, combining characteristics from both
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Hijab as Commodity Form: Veiling, Unveiling, and Misveiling in Contemporary Iran,” Feminist Theory in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThis article considers how state-mandated veiling and unveiling reinforce modern capitalism. State regulations regarding veiling incorporate the female body into the political economy of the commodity form. In addition to serving as an empty signifier to be filled with exchange value for the male observer, the veil operates as an ideological…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Riot Grrrl Primatology – Über Forscherinnen, Feminismus und feministische Wissenschaften in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoDraft Version des Beitrags: In dem vorliegenden Artikel möchten wir der Frage nach den Möglichkeiten eines weiblichen bzw. feministischen Zugangs zu wissenschaftlicher Forschung in verschiedenen Hinsichten beleuchten. Wir werden uns dem Thema exemplarisch anhand des Forschungsfeldes der Primatologie zuwenden, wobei die Antwort auf die Frage, w…[Read more]
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Jean Marie Carey deposited Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured 1957-2017 in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoA review of the 2017 retrospective of painter Mernet Larsen at the Tampa Museum of Art.
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Who Pays for the Butter? Florence Marryat and the Married Women’s Property Acts in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoWhereas many women writers were reticent on the issue of property, or vehemently opposed to improving the position of wives, Florence Marryat used her public platform to campaign for change. As such, her work forms an important contribution to our understanding of women and property in the nineteenth century. In this paper I discuss the ways in…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited Woman Against Woman – Geraldine Jewsbury vs Florence Marryat in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoFlorence Marryat (1833-99) was a novelist, editor, playwright, spiritualist, singer and actress. She wrote nearly seventy novels during her varied career, most of which were dismissed by critics but loved by her reading public. Much of the opprobrium aimed at her originated from fellow women authors such as Eliza Lynn Linton and Marie Corelli, but…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited International Solidarity in reproductive justice: surrogacy and gender-inclusive polymaternalism in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months agoReproductive justice and gestational surrogacy are often implicitly treated as antonyms. Yet the former represents a theoretic approach that enables the long and racialised history of surrogacy (far from a new or ‘exceptional’ practice) to be appreciated as part of a struggle for ‘radical kinship’ and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Recasti…[Read more]
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Sophie Lewis deposited Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months agoAs surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoThis article analyzes the connections between Lorde’s representations of blindness in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and its connection to lesbian sexuality.
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Kate Ozment deposited Expanding Access: Feminist Scholarship and the Women in Book History Bibliography in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoInspired by my work on the Women in Book History Bibliography, this presentation takes a different angle on discussions of women’s texts in digital archives. The WBHB collects secondary sources on women’s writing and labor over a broad range of languages, subjects, geographic locations, and time periods. Because we collect secondary sources, we…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick deposited How to Begin is also Where: Placemaking Pedagogy and June Jordan’s His Own Where in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoThis paper highlights the multiple modalities through which writer, activist, and educator June Jordan materialized a placemaking pedagogy, grounded in the art of structural critique and using language in the service of social change. In this paper, I show how Jordan “implicitly instructs” her students and young readers in cultivating a str…[Read more]
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Liza Potts deposited Ladies that UX Leadership and Organization Report in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoLadies that UX (LTUX) is an international organization focused on mentoring women in the software industry. In order to explore both the mission and the focus of the international organization and smaller, localized chapters of LTUX, we conducted a series of surveys and interviews. These surveys focused on how local groups of LTUX were formed and…[Read more]
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Janneke Adema deposited Performative Publications in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoThis article is a print rendition of a web-based experimental publication which reflects upon and at the same time is itself an example of performative publishing. A performative publication wants to explore how we can bring together and align more closely the material form of a publication with its content. Making use of hypothes.is software, the…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Excerpt: Concordance B in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 months agoExcerpt: Concordance B from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).
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Laurie Ringer deposited Excerpt: Concordance A in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 months agoExcerpt: Concordance A from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).
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Jonathan Sterne deposited How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriachy in Communication Scholarship? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.
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Jonathan Sterne deposited How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriachy in Communication Scholarship? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.
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