Academic Feminists

Hi. I'm posting an invite to my first online Passion Party. (Cut so as not to offend...Or something.) I'm not trying to spam.
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The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition is pleased to announce the release of its 2008 GENIUS Survey in partnership with Ernst & Young. GenderPAC works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow and succeed.

The Gender Equality National Index for Universities & Schools (GENIUS), GenderPAC’s most recent effort to end discrimination and promote awareness, encourages colleges and universities to recognize the benefits of a GenderSAFE campus - supportive equitable and protective for all students. Choosing to participate in GENUIS sends a strong public statement that bullying or discriminating based on the race, sex or gender of a student, faculty, or staff member is not tolerated at your institution

Fill out the survey at: www.gpac.org/GENIUS2008survey, and make sure that we have data for as many schools as possible. Your voice will help us continue to work towards a safe and welcoming environment for every student

So, I know I don't have much to go on, but hopefully you all can help me.

My bioethics professor was talking about this large study someone did roughly 10 years ago that surveyed college fraternity members and found that something like 76% would rape a woman if there were no legal consequences (don't quote me on that stat, it was off the top of his head).  He can't remember the source of the study and I can't possibly read through every study done on the sexual attitudes of college men in the last decade (nor do i particularly want to)!  I know it's a long shot, but does this ring a bell for anyone?  I'm trying to find the published work and want to know if there have been any follow up studies in the last decade.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

*From Abortion Rights to Social Justice:
Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom April 4-6, 2008*
*Hampshire** College***
*Amherst**, MA***

*/A project of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program/*

* Register online at http://clpp.hampshire.edu*

* Come to the FREE conference on April 4-6 2008 and be part of building
a unified movement for social justice!*

On April 4-6, 2008, campus and community activists will be gathering at
Hampshire College to unite for reproductive justice. We are expecting a
large turnout---last year there were over 1100 participants from the US
and abroad. We offer more than 40 workshops and trainings. Conference
speakers address reproductive freedom as it relates to a broad range of
social justice initiatives including economic justice, health care
reform, racial equality, freedom from violence, immigrant rights,
climate justice, and LGBTQ rights, just to name a few.

Over the weekend, you will deepen your understanding of issues you
already know about, make new connections, and unite with others who are
passionate about working for social justice.

For more information, check out our website at clpp.hampshire.edu or
contact us at (413) 559-6976 or clpp@hampshire.edu.

Cross-posted around pro-choice communities

http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/

Call For Papers:
For a Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities
Edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry

The recent publication of The Transgender Studies Reader (ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, New York: Routledge, 2006) marks a watershed in the development of trans studies. Arising in the early nineties in close relation to queer theory, trans studies is characterized by the coming-to-voice of trans people, long the theorized and researched objects of sexology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and even feminist theory.

Sandy Stone’s groundbreaking “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” sought the end of monolithic accounts of trans people (authored by non-trans) to reveal a multiplicity of trans narratives told by trans people themselves. By recognizing trans people as flesh and blood human beings with particular access to experiences of “transness” and transphobic oppression, as its starting point, trans studies opens up a way of theorizing “transgender”--for trans and non-trans people alike--that ideally resists, rather than reinforces, mechanisms of transphobia. This raises important questions in feminist theory and politics. How can feminist theory best understand transphobia and trans resistance? Where do feminist and trans politics meet? Where are the overlaps and gaps, the points of connection and disconnection?

Hypatia invites submissions to a special issue on transgender studies and feminism, which recognizes the emergence of trans studies.

We welcome articles that investigate the relations between feminism and transgender studies. Articles exploring the intersections of multiple oppressions are especially welcome, as are submissions that come from subject-positions outside the United States (and North America more generally). We seek a collection of papers that is international in scope.

We also welcome articles that focus on issues specific to trans studies, trans politics, and trans people. This includes (but is hardly limited to) the following: medical regulations of trans bodies; transphobic violence; transphobia in housing, employment, education, medical treatment, and the like; sexual violence against trans people; critiques and concerns about various views within trans studies or politics, tensions between queer theory and trans studies.
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The deadline for submissions is 15 April, 2008. Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word to Ann Garry at agarry@calstatela.edu. Submissions should follow Hypatia guidelines (see http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/). Please address all correspondence, questions and suggestions to Ann Garry or Talia Bettcher at tbettch@calstatela.edu.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Lately I've been drooling over one professor from NYU's Slavic Studies program who has conducted some great research on gender and sexuality studies in the former USSR.

Queer CUNY VIII: The Twilight of Queerness?
Saturday, December 1st
Hunter College, West Lobby
10am-6pm

The conference will commence in the West Lobby of Hunter College (entrance on the SW corner of 68th and Lex).

To get a sneak peek of the scheduled panels, click ( here. )

Please contact QueerCUNY@gmail.com with any questions.

I wanted to post this call for submissions if anyone is interested!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

The Sixth Annual Women’s Studies Student

Conference presents this year’s theme:

“Media Justice and Feminist Futures”

November 29-30, 2007

Campus Center Assembly Hall

University at Albany

 

This event will highlight the use of media for feminist social justice and critical studies of women and gender.  We especially encourage analyses that intersect gender with sexuality, race, class, and (trans)nationality.

 

We invite college and university students and community activists to submit proposals for papers, film, music, art, live performance, and other creative and critical works.

 

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

!    Critiques of media representation

!    Impact of new media and the digital revolution on feminisms (e.g. blogging,

      YouTube, Second Life, etc.)

!    Historical explorations of media

!    Role of media in activism and social justice movements (past and present)

!    Role of community media and independent media in an age of corporate control

!    Access to media and technology, alternative low-tech forms, and issues of the

      ‘digital divide’

 

Please send 200-word abstracts describing your project to wstudent@albany.edu no later than Friday, October 19, 2007.  Abstracts describing film and live performances should indicate the project’s running time (Image or digital files of media projects may also be submitted as e-mail attachments or through a URL if presented on the web).

 

www.albany.edu/wstudent_conference

Hi! I am working on an art project about the book "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" by Judy Blume. If this book had an impact on you growing up, maybe you could fill out this quick survey? I know I would never have become a feminist without these books. Did they have a similar impact on you? If you have any questions or comments, or, if you would like a collection of excerpts to jog your memory, feel free to e-mail me at pocketsbuttons@gmail.com . thanks!

( it's me, margaret )

Hey all,

I'm compiling a list of all Australian Feminist bloggers for an Australian Feminist website. The underlying philosophy of the website will be Radical Feminism. For a good introduction to what Radical Feminism is and what we do go here. If you would like to be included on the blog roll as an Australian Feminist blogger please comment on this post and give the address of your blog (if your feminist blog is not your lj blog)

In sisterhood,

allecto

Found this article on boingboing.net and thought I'd share it with the rest of you ... if nothing else, it's stirring up quite a reaction. The comments aren't that interesting yet, but I'm sure someone here could change that.

Cheers!

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     I'm writing an article on steampunk for a feminist magazine, and would like to ask everyone (including the men) in this community who is interested in/involved with steampunk for feedback whenever/if ever they have the time.

     My questions are as follows:

1)  What attracts you to the steampunk subculture, if you will? Is it the aesthetic, the functionality, the sense of community?

2) What do you like to contribute, and why?

3) Would you consider steampunk particularly woman-friendly and why or why not?

4) Do you think that the women gravitate to the aesthetic aspects of steampunk (e.g. fashion) more than other aspects? Why or why not?

     I might have more questions later, if no one minds.

     Please note: it'll be much easier for me to make sense of people's responses if they number them similarly; however, if you're not comfortable with a question, feel free to skip it (e.g. answer 1, 2, and 4; just number them appropriately).

     Thanks again!

I've always been a proponent of maligned and oppressed groups who twist the terminology and mechanisms of their oppression into tools for their own use. What follows is a modest example of a pro-Dumb Blond joke:

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This blond woman sits down next to a philosophy professor on an airplane, and the professor strikes up a conversation with her. He eventually gets her to agree to play a trivia game with him by offering her 10-to-1 odds.

"If you ask me a question I can't answer, I'll give you fifty dollars. If I ask you a question that you can't answer, you only have to give me five."

So the blond agrees and the professor asks the first question: "How far is the Earth from the nearest star?"

She doesn't say anything at all and just hands him five dollars, so the professor gives her a smug grin and waits for her question.

"What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?" she asks. The professor thinks for a long time, but finally gives her fifty dollars without complaining. She pockets the money and remains silent.

"Wait a minute! What was the answer to your question?" he asks.

Without saying anything, the blond woman hands him another five dollars.

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Thoughts? Criticisms? Other jokes?

Dear all,

I am writing a paper in which I compare the 80s debate between the sex-positive and the MacDworkinite view on porn with the current debate on sexual image culture. I have to find out which positions there are taken in the current debate. 

One position is of course Ariel Levy's, who says that raunch culture is not liberating for women because it is just conformism to the old stereotypes. She says that raunch culture still treats women merely as body objects and that it does not give them room to explore their subjective sexual feelings.  

I am now looking for some article or paper which attacks her view. I was thinking of CAKE (http://www2.cakenyc.com/), but I really need a more academic answer on Levy. I guess such an article would explore the agency of women who take part in raunch culture or something like that.

Has anyone ideas? Thank you on forehand!

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Hi, all!  I'm putting together a reading list that focuses on motherhood -- specifically, the "dark side" (as my advisor calls it) of motherhood.  I want to examine mothers in literature who commit acts of violence or cruelty toward their children out of love.  Also, I'm interested in literature about women who have abortions. 

Here's what I have in mind so far:

Novels/Poems:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Mother"
Lucille Clifton, "The Lost Baby Poem"
Anne Sexton, "The Abortion"

Criticism:

1. Julia Kristeva --??
   
2. Adrienne Rich – Of Woman Born
3. Alice Walker – In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
4. Kristen Luker – Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
5. Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality
6. Carol Gilligan – In a Different Voice

Any recommendations on other texts would be greatly appreciated. 

I'm currently writing a paper on the theme of adversity faced by strong female characters, especially protagonists and those who fit the "ballbuster" archetype in various media (by both men and women).

My genres of choice: literature and the typically male-dominated science fiction genre and comic book medium. I plan to cite such sources as James Tiptree Jr. and Y The Last Man as well as Bitch magazine. The authors I plan to cite are Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison and Dorothy Allison.

Can anyone suggest a few good feminist comics/science fiction, anyway?

Hello all.  My name is Liz and I live in Northern Ireland.  I am currently writing on a chapter in my dissertation that I'm convinced could benefit with some elaboration of Kristeva's notion of the 'abject'.  I am VERY new  to Kristeva and reasonably new to French feminism and psychoanalytic criticism so am working like a dog to get my head around the density of her thought.  If there is anyone out there who is similarly struggling or has mastered the beast and would like to discuss it with me, I'd be much obliged.

Cheers, Liz

I don't know if anyone here knows her work; if they don't, they can go to this web site to read some of her poetry.

Spoken Truths: Words from a Zaatar Diva

8pm-9:30pm

Join us for an evening of poetry with Arab-American

poet, Suheir Hammad, from HBO's critically acclaimed

"Russel simmons Presents Def Poetry"

$15 at the door ($10 for students with ID), includes

after party. All ages welcome (21+ at the bar)


Spoken Truths After Party

10pm-2am

Come to the reading and stay for the party for free!

Or, come for the after party and celebrate with even

more spoken word artists and sonic poetry with DJ

Ahmed. For more information, contact The Arab

Cultural & Community Center at (415) 664 2200.

$10 at the door (after party only), 18+ (21+ at the bar)

Daily Happy Hour Special (4pm-8pm): 50¢ Fruit Infused Vodka Shots!