Cycles of gender testing
March 31, 2014
—Ellen Samuels A friend who cycles competitively just sent me a link to the new policy on transgender participants in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference. It seems like a progressive… READ MORE
Month: March 2014
Women’s History Month: Remembering Viola Wyle, “a mother to all”
March 28, 2014
—Caroline E. Light Many common threads link the lives of the orphans and widowed mothers documented in the case files of the Hebrew Orphans Home of Atlanta. They came to… READ MORE
A call to men: Ending violence against women
March 24, 2014
—Silvia Domínguez During my research for Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing and Immigrant Networks, I developed a framework that demonstrates how women get ahead through social networks and their own… READ MORE
Muslim women’s dress, a tool of liberation
March 20, 2014
—Jamillah Karim It was in a black feminist/womanist course at Duke when I realized that black Muslim women fit squarely within black women’s tradition of navigating the complex of race,… READ MORE
“Untitled Feminism”
March 19, 2014
—Juana María Rodríguez In their 2013 video, performance artists Amber Hawk Swanson and Xandra Ibarra (aka La Chica Boom) capture feminism’s ambivalent and decidedly vexed relationship to sexual politics. Their… READ MORE
A “more Irish” St. Patrick’s Day parade tradition?
March 17, 2014
—Jennifer Nugent Duffy New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio added another layer of controversy to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day season when he announced his decision to boycott the… READ MORE
Making America Christian: A forgotten HERstory
March 13, 2014
—Priscilla Pope-Levison Visit dusty archives around the country, even into Canada, and you’ll discover a slew of sermons, diaries, papers, and autobiographies of women evangelists, whose profound impact on American… READ MORE
Must-read for Women’s History Month: What Works for Women at Work
March 6, 2014
Described as having “something approaching rock-star status” in her field, Joan C. Williams has played a central role in reshaping the debate on women’s advancement for the past quarter-century. Williams was… READ MORE