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Category Archives: gender studies
2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize: Call for Papers
in Call for Papers, feminist studies, gender, gender studies, NWSA First Book Prize, radical studies, women, women's history
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Call for Papers for the 2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize The University of Illinois Press and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single … Continue reading
New #PressforProgress Reading List: Essential books on Women in Music
in #PressforProgress, american history, bluegrass, blues, ethnomusicology, feminist studies, gender studies, Little Free Library, music, Uncategorized, women's history
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In honor of Women’s History Month, UIP will be releasing weekly reading lists with some of our favorite women’s history books. We are joining the call to #PressforProgress for gender equality, and we will be updating our Little Free Library, … Continue reading
5 Things You Need to Know at #NWSA2017
in author events, authors, conferences, feminist studies, gender, gender studies
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Headed to NWSA this week? So are we! Here are five things you need know: UIP is having a reception to celebrate our new series: Transformations: Womanist, Feminist, and Indigenous Studies edited by AnaLouise Keating. Join us in the exhibit … Continue reading
Book Trailer for “Beyond Respectability”
in African American Studies, author commentary, authors, gender studies
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Film Credit: Bob Greenberg at Brainwaves
“Women Against Abortion” in The New York Review of Books”
in gender, gender studies, women's history
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Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century by Karissa Haugeberg was recently covered in The New York Review of Books in a review essay entitled “The Abortion Battlefield.” The reviewer called the book “excellent” and detailed its … Continue reading
“Beyond Respectability” on NPR
in African American Studies, american history, black studies, gender, gender studies, women's history
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Brittney C. Cooper’s new book Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women was recently reviewed on NPR! The reviewer described it “a work of crucial cultural study. . . . [Beyond Respectability] lays out the complicated history of black woman as … Continue reading
“Women Against Abortion” mentioned in The New Yorker
in gender, gender studies, women, women's history
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Karissa Haugeberg’s book Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century was recently mentioned in an article in The New Yorker that examines the history of abortion legislation and the anti-abortion movement. Read more here. … Continue reading
Purple ribbons and red clothes for International Women’s Day
in feminist studies, gender studies, women's history
Tagged feminism, gender studies, International Women's Day, labor studies, women's studies
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It is International Women’s Day, comrade! By universal proclamation we honor women and dedicate ourselves to helping them overcome the many obstacles they still face in this man’s world. Indeed, some people intend to observe the day with A Day Without … Continue reading
Funk the Power, Funk the Erotic
in African American Studies, black studies, gender studies, sexuality studies
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“We have just witnessed a spectacular demonstration of the failures of a national, political imagination. Many of us feel devastated, afraid, and confused. There is no better time than this to accept L.H. Stallings’s Funk the Erotic’s invitation to inhabit … Continue reading
Splattered Ink co-winner of Emily Toth Award
in awards, gender studies, literary studies
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We are pleased to announce that Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence by Sarah E. Whitney is the co-winner of the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies, awarded by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture … Continue reading
