July 22, 2009
Salon.com has a great interview with Babysitter author Miriam Forman-Brunell. It covers all aspects of the babysitting spectrum, from history.. Has there ever been a golden age of baby sitting?… READ MORE
July 20, 2009
This article features our Fall 2009 title The Fat Studies Reader, edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Sondra Solovay One of the most comprehensive data sets available about Americans—how tall… READ MORE
June 3, 2009
Religion Dispatches has a very thorough and scintillating interview with Danya Ruttenberg, author of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism, up on their website. I found the story of Rahab… READ MORE
March 30, 2009
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, editor of the forthcoming volume The Passionate Torah, will be teaching a class called “I and Thou: On Jewish Sex” at the Isabella Friedman Jewish Retreat Center… READ MORE
March 17, 2009
Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender, edited by Judith Resnik and Seyla Benhabib, features a pictogram by the artist group kollektiv migrantas, made up of four migrant women, Irma,… READ MORE
March 5, 2009
Great article at the Jewish Outreach Institute on Keren McGinity’s new book, Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America. In the first chapter of Keren R. McGinity’s… READ MORE
February 27, 2009
By Aihwa Ong; from Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders and Genders, edited by Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik. The underpaid, starved and battered foreign maid, while not the statistical norm,… READ MORE
February 26, 2009
Following up on our post from a few days ago, Naomi Cahn (author of Test Tube Families) writes in the Baltimore Sun about the case of a 60-year-old woman who… READ MORE