March 30, 2017
—Margaret M. McGuinness
Including stories of nuns in discussions of “Trailblazing Women” in business and labor would clearly enrich our knowledge of this aspect of women’s history, as well as help us to understand the complexities of their lives.
March 28, 2017
—Elizabeth Ellcessor
Creating accessible spaces, technologies, and content often entails augmenting, altering, or otherwise working around the assumption that all users will have a “normal” able body.
March 23, 2017
—Moritz Fink and Marilyn DeLaure
In opposition to Trump’s ad hoc and authoritarian politics, the last four months have seen a surge in creative forms of resistance known as “culture jamming.”
March 22, 2017
—NYU Press
We’re delighted to announce the publication of Keywords for Media Studies! Our project maps the interdisciplinary field of media studies—past, present, and future.
—Linda C. Fentiman
Every woman has the right to expect confidentiality, compassion, and appropriate medical treatment from care providers without fear of legal reprisal, but that is not always a given.
March 20, 2017
—Barbara Katz Rothman
Medicalizing contraception has many costs. But right now, as Planned Parenthood is defunded, as the Affordable Care Act is being destroyed—my main complaint has to be that the portions are so small.
March 17, 2017
—Paul Moses
On this St. Patrick’s Day in the midst of a bitter national debate over immigration, Paul Moses remembers John F. Kennedy’s A Nation of Immigrants. “The Irish,” wrote Kennedy, “were the first to endure the scorn and discrimination later to be inflicted, to some degree at least, on each successive wave of immigrants by already settled ‘Americans.’ “
March 10, 2017
—Thomas A. Foster
Anti-Trump discourses have too often reverted to tropes as old as the nation and as antithetical to a progressive agenda as President Trump himself.