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BEYOND HEALING

An Interview with L. Ayu Saraswati, author of Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain 1. In Scarred, you describe your journey traveling to twenty countries in just over a year…. READ MORE

Banner that reads "To Have Equal Pay, We Need Equal Parental Leave. An Excerpt from Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman." In the background, a team of people stack their hands together. An image of the book cover, featuring traffic lights with baby bottles on them in front of a light blue background.

To Have Equal Pay, We Need Equal Parental Leave

An Excerpt From Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman Parental leave may result in lower wages. There is plenty of evidence that mothers experience a wage… READ MORE

5 Books to Read During Ramadan

Join us as we celebrate Ramadan by exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim life. These titles offer a variety of perspectives, exploring Islam and its subcultures through lenses of gender,… READ MORE

The book 'I Write the Yawning Void' lays on top of a gold-tinted picture of Cape Town, South Africa.

I Write the Yawning Void: An Internationally Acclaimed Author Speaks on Writing and Representation

Excerpted from I Write the Yawning Void: Selected Essays of Sindiwe Magona by Sindiwe Magona, published by Wits University Press I can’t believe I have been writing for more than… READ MORE

Inside the Police Academy: An Interview with Samantha J. Simon

Inside the Police Academy

An Interview with Samantha J. Simon, author of Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence You spent a year researching this book at four large, municipal police departments… READ MORE

An Introduction to Biocriminology

April 15, 2009

Longer than our usual posts, this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the emerging field of Biocriminology. One of the leading scholars quoted in the article is… READ MORE

Diane Rehm Tackles the Recession

April 14, 2009

Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times appeared yesterday on the Diane Rehm show. Listen to the podcast here! Unemployment… READ MORE

“Their entire operation was based on glamorizing the white-male, ‘beefcake’ image.”

April 10, 2009

Here’s a recent letter we were forwarded from Dwight McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality. I am 26 year-old male from southern… READ MORE

Which Would You Prefer, Foundlings or the Orphan Train?

April 9, 2009

As NYC prepares to mark 140 years of New York Foundling, one of the nation’s oldest child-welfare agencies, the AP interviewed our author, Julie Miller, for an article in USA… READ MORE

How Satire Became Reality (Hint: Jon Stewart, Tina Fey)

April 8, 2009

The State of Satire, and the Satire of State By Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson, editors of Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era The… READ MORE

Junk Analysis of Higher Ed by the NY Times

April 7, 2009

Cross-posted from the blog of Marc Bousquet, author of How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. [Last month’s] report on academic employment by the New York Times… READ MORE

Religious Economies, Spiritual Entrepreneurs, Evangelical Celebrities

April 6, 2009

Supply and demand, that delicate relationship between producers and consumers, is perhaps the central dynamic of a market economy. In an hour when all eyes are fixed on the shifting… READ MORE

Dissent within the Academy!

April 3, 2009

Or in this case, Eagle Hill High School, a private co-educational college preparatory boarding school for students with learning disabilities. On Friday, April 3rd, Michael Avery, one of the nation’s… READ MORE