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Jayna Brown Wins ASTR Award
Duke University Press Log —
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Jayna Brown, author of Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern , has just been announced as the winner of the American Society for Theatre Research s Errol Hill Award for 2009. Congratulations, Jayna!18 hours ago -
To Serve God and Wal-Mart panel discussion at NYU
Harvard University Press Publicity Blog —
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November 20, 4-8pm at NYUs Department of Social and Cultural Analysis : A panel discussion and book party for Bethany Moreton, author of To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (reviews: Bookforum , NYTBR , The Big Money ) and Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer ...2 days ago -
Knitting Clio is Mad as Hell at Publisher’s Weekly
Knitting Clio —
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via She Writes , who tells us that Publishers Weekly included ZERO female authors in its list of best books of 2009. The blog encourages us women writers to participate in SHE WRITES DAY OF ACTION. Here’s what they ask us to do, including my replies: “By Friday, November 13th, please do three simple, ...3 days ago -
Woman: an Intimate Geography (thoughts)
A Striped Armchair —
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I’m starting to feel a bit better guys. I’m hoping that means I’ll be able to resume daily posting, but I’m just glad I feel well enough to write a review today! (Also, thanks to everyone’s suggestions, I got 7 different TV shows on DVD from my library last night, so I have lots of options for ...3 days ago -
Pink stink
Broadsides —
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Apologies for not feeding the blog beast very frequently this week. Just as well. Thats because something I meant to write about on Monday has seen new developments. Specifically this: SAO PAULO–A Brazilian university student expelled for wearing a short, pink dress to class was accused of immorality by the college ...3 days ago -
Daylight Podcast with Jennette Williams
Duke University Press Log —
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The folks over at Daylight Magazine have made a terrific podcast with photographer Jennette Williams, whose stunning platinum prints of women bathers in Budapest and Istanbul won the fourth Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography . Williams says her goal was to capture women ...3 days ago -
GIRL TALK: Quick Takes on Difficult Dialogues and Wimpy Kids
Girl with Pen —
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Difficult Dialgoues Get the latest on girls and girls studies this week at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia from November 12-15. The conference theme is “Difficult Dialogues,” and we expect our largest event in recent history. On tap: more than 1,600 feminist ...4 days ago -
Trans-sexual author tells students what makes life worth living
The Temple News —
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Temple students swarmed the Women’s Studies Lounge in Anderson Hall last Wednesday to listen to notorious trans-sexual author, playwright and performance artist Kate Bornstein speak about gender and queer-related issues.Bornstein, author of the popular works Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us and Hello ...4 days ago -
Sex and “Mad Men”
Knitting Clio —
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via Historiann , who asks what we think about the portrayal of sex on “Mad Men.” Historiann observes that this is the era of Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl (1962) — so where’s all the fun? Well, my first reaction is that Brown’s main message was that because women were at a ...5 days ago -
Students react to Marge Simpson as Playboy’s November centerfold
Daily Titan —
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By Lauren Felechner Daily Titan Staff Writer Dramatization by Ron Fu. Marge Simpson has officially joined the ranks of celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriends of “The Girls Next Door,” Bridget, Holly and Kendra, by posing as November’s cover shot with a pictorial in Playboy ...5 days ago -
Why Men And Women Use Lubricants During Sex: Two studies
Information on HPV —
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An Indiana University study involving 2,453 women ages 18 to 68 found that lubricant use during sexual activity alone or with a partner contributed to higher ratings of pleasurable and satisfying sex. Personal lubricants have long been recommended to women to improve the comfort of sexual intercourse and to reduce ...5 days ago -
A Transwoman in need of Feminism 101
Knitting Clio —
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In this month’s The History of Science Society | Newsletter , historian Alice Dreger writes about the kind of an encounter at the National Women’s Studes Association meeting that they don’t prepare you for in graduate school (although maybe on the middle school playground). For those unfamiliar with ...1 week ago -
Everyday Nationalism--Now Available
Penn Press Log —
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Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India ...1 week ago -
My Women Unbound Reading List (X10 or so)
Joystory —
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See yesterdays post for my acceptance of the challenge and my answers to the starting meme questions. So upon deciding to accept this Women Unbound womens studies reading challenge last night, I started pulling potential books off my shelves, both owned and borrowed, and combing through my bib slips for titles and ...1 week ago -
Women Unbound Reading Challenge
Joystory —
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Im signing on to the Women Unbound reading challenge . It began November 1st and runs through the end of November 2010. Participants are encouraged to read nonfiction and fiction books related to the rather broad idea of ‘women’s studies.’ The definition according to Merriam-Webster the multidisciplinary ...1 week ago -
Women’s studies blogs are eye-openers
A blog of our own —
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If you are looking for an eye-opening women’s studies blog, you’ve already found one. A Blog of Our Own , the blog for the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Akron, has been named one of “ Fifty Eye-Opening Women’s Studies Blogs ” by Online Degree Programs.org. It’s listed in the ...1 week ago -
The Kings Other Body--Now Available
Penn Press Log —
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The Kings Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon Theresa Earenfight 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 maps Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4185-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Middle Ages Series The Kings Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon is both a biography of Alfonso Vs queen ...1 week ago -
Sunday Salon: the Wow-October’s-Over! Post
A Striped Armchair —
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Can you believe today is November 1st? I missed last week’s Sunday Salon (although I did a Friday salon, lol) in the post-Dewey’s Read-a-Thon, so I have quite a few books to talk about. I’ve decided to save the graphic books I’ve been reading for another post, but that leaves us with 16. So let’s get ...1 week ago -
*Women Unbound* reading challenge
She Is Too Fond Of Books ... —
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I was eaves-twopping on Twitter earlier this week and landed smack in the middle of a conversation between Eva , Care , Aarti and others about the formation of a women’s studies reading challenge for the upcoming year. How exciting! How timely! How “Yes! Great idea!”! According to the intro post on the ...2 weeks ago -
The Anatomy Murders Corpse of the Day--Mary Paterson
Penn Press Log —
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Mary Patersons corpse was, as historian Lisa Rosner put it, "the most notorious cadaver." Her murder at the hands of William Burke and William Hare, and the subsequent preservation of her body at Dr. Robert Knoxs anatomical study facility were the fodder for many titillating and moralizing versions of the Burke and ...2 weeks ago
