Category Archives: feminist studies

August 16, 2012

New Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color

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This month, UIP launches a new journal in cooperation with the University of Kansas. Women, Gender, and Families of Color expands the mission of Black Women, Gender, and Families, which has ceased publication. The new title explicitly includes Black, Latina, … Continue reading →

July 14, 2011

A new series: Dissident Feminisms

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Series Editor: Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce a new series, Dissident Feminisms, which seeks new feminist writing that traverses the fault lines of epistemology and power, particularly the relationship between … Continue reading →

December 13, 2010

Feminist Technologies for Safe Sex & Sexual Pleasure? by Linda Layne

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In the women’s  ‘loo’ in a pub in Cambridge, England I found a product which is promoted as one “designed by girls, for girls”— a “seduction kit” for three pounds, consisting of two condoms (one natural feel and one with … Continue reading →

May 20, 2010

Fashion & Feminism by Linda Layne

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One of the questions raised by the discussion with my students regarding the virtues and vices of making birth control packs look like compacts is the relationship of fashion with feminism. I refer here not to the perennial questions of … Continue reading →

May 17, 2010

Are “Fashionable” Birth Control Packs Feminist or Antifeminist? by Linda Layne

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The page proofs of Feminist Technology were ready in time for me to give the book a trial run in my spring course, Women Leaders/Feminist Entrepreneurs. As anticipated, the students really connected with the material. Always keen discussants, they were … Continue reading →