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Feminisms Unbound

A Celebration of Books of GCWS Authors

Wednesday, April 13th: 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: The Moore Room, Building 6 Room 321

Join us to celebrate recently published works on topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The event will feature over 30 books published since 2013. The evening will include a book table where you can peruse copies of the featured works and very short book talks by our featured authors.

The list of authors and books that we will be highlighting includes:

Pnina Abir-Am (Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University): "Women Scientists in the 1970s: An ego-histoire of a lost generation" in Writing About Lives in Science: (Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre, Eds. Paola Govoni and Alice Franceschi (V&R Unipress, 2014)
Thomas Abowd (German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures, Tufts University): Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth (Syracuse University Press, 2014)
Kimberly Juanita Brown (English and Africana Studies, Mount Holyoke College): The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary (Duke University Press, 2015)
Abigail Child (Film Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): Mouth to Mouth (EOAGH Press, 2016)
Catherine Connell (Sociology, Boston University): School’s Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom (University of California Press, 2014)
Sasha Costanza-Chock (Comparative Media Studies, MIT): “Towards Transformative Media Organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit Media Work in the United States,” report through the Ford Foundation (2015)
Lisa Cuklanz and Heather McIntosh (Communication Department, Boston College (Lisa Cuklanz): Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Jamie Hagen (Global Governance and Human Security, UMass Boston): “Queering Women, Peace and Security” in International Affairs (Volume 92, Number 2) and “The Revolutionary Possibilities of Online Trans and Queer Communities” in Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century, Ed. Shira Tarrant (Routledge, 2016)
Diana Henderson (Literature, MIT): “Tempestuous Transitions and Double Vision: From early to late modern gendered performances on stage, film, and in higher education”in Rethinking Feminism: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the early Modern World, eds. Ania Loomba and Melissa Sanchez (Ashgate, 2016)
Ranjoo Herr (Philosophy, Bentley University): “Can Transnational Feminist Solidarity Accommodate Nationalism? Reflections from the Case Study of Korean “Comfort Women”” in Hypatia (Vol. 31, Issue 1, 2016) and “Reclaiming Third World Feminism: Or Why Transnational Feminism Needs Third World Feminism” in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism (Vol 12, Issue 1, 2014)
Christine Hoff Kraemer (Theology and Religious History, Cherry Hill Seminary): Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective: Divided for Love’s Sake (Routledge, 2014) and Pagan Consent Culture: Building Communities of Empathy and Autonomy, Eds. Christine Hoff Kraemer and Yvonne Aburrow(Asphodel Press, 2016)
Lisa Lowe (English, Tufts University): The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press, 2015)
Susan Marine (Higher Education, Merrimack College): “’I’m in this for real’: Revisiting Young Women’s Feminism” in Women’s Studies International Form (Vol. 47, 2014)
Susan Marine and Ruth Lewis (Higher Education, Merrimack College (Susan Marine): “Weaving a tapestry, compassionately: Toward an understanding of young women’s feminisms” in Feminist Formations: The Journal of the National Women’s Studies Association (Vol. 27, Issue 1, 2015)
Kristine M. Molina, Tariana V. Little, and Milagros C. Rosal (Digital Health Communication, Tufts University (Tariana Little): “Everyday Discrimination, Family Context, and Psychological Distress among Latino Adults in the United States” in the Journal of Community Psychology (Vol. 44, Issue 2, 2016)
Margaret Morganroth Gullette (Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University): The Big Move, co-authored by Ruth Ray Karpen, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, Helen Kivnick, and Margaret Morganroth Gullette (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2016)
Margaret Morganroth Gullette (Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University): "Euthanasia as a Caregiving Fantasy in the Era of the New Longevity" first published in Age, Culture, Humanities #1 (2014)
Jeanne Marie Penvenne (History, Tufts University): Women, Migration and the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique, 1945-1975 (James Currey / Boydell Brewer / NY UK, 2015)
Bruno Perreau (Global Studies and Languages, MIT): The Politics of Adoption: Gender and the Making of French Citizenship (MIT Press, 2014)
Pratima Prasad (French, UMass Boston): Approaches to Teaching Sand's Indiana, Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series (The Modern Languages Association of America, 2015)
Laura Prieto (History, Simmons College): "Bibles, Baseball, and Butterfly Sleeves: Filipina Women and American Protestant Missions, 1900-1930," in Paradoxes of Domesticity: Christian Missionaries and Women in Asia and the Pacific, eds. Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly (Canberra: Australia National University Press, 2014)
Jyoti Puri (Sociology, Simmons College): Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle Against Antisodomy Law in India (Duke University Press, 2016)
Smitha Radhakrishnan and Cinzia Solari (Sociology, UMass Boston): “Empowered Women, Failed Patriarchs: Neoliberalism and Global Gender Anxieties” in Sociology Compass (Vol. 9, Issue 9, 2015)
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett (Communication, Boston University, and WSRC, Brandeis University): The New Soft War On Women: How the myth of female ascendance is hurting women, men – and our economy (TarcherPerigee, 2013)
Harleen Singh (South Asian Literature, Brandeis University): The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Judith Smith (American Studies, UMass Boston): “Civil Rights, Labor, and Sexual Politics on Screen in Nothing but a Man” (1964), in The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man, ed. David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin (University of Indiana Press, 2015)
Lizzie Stark (Independent Scholar): Pandora’s DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes through History, Science, and One Family Tree (Chicago Review Press, 2014) and #Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology (Fea Livia, 2016)
K. J. Surkan (Women's and Gender Studies, MIT): “That Fat Man is Giving Birth: Gender and the Pregnant Body” in Birth and Its Meanings: Representations of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting, ed. Nadya Burton (Demeter Press, 2015)
Monica White Ndounou (Drama and Dance, Tufts University): Shaping the Future of African American Film: Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers (Rutgers, 2014)
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks (Global Inclusion and Social Development, UMass Boston): “Women Seeking Justice At the Intersection Between Vernacular and State Laws and Courts in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa” in The New Legal Realism, Vol. II: Studying Law Globally, eds. Heinz Klug and Sally Engle Merry (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and “Customary Succession and the Development of Customary Law: The Bhe Legacy” in A Transformative Justice: Essays in Honour of Pius Langa, eds. Michael Bishop and Alistair Price (Juta, 2015)
Elizabeth A. Wood (History, MIT): William E. Pomeranz, E. Wayne Merry, and Maxim Trudolyubov: Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine (Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Columbia University Press, 2015)
Asli Zengin (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandies University): “Sex for Law, Sex for Therapy: Pre-Sex Reassignment Surgical Therapy Sessions of Trans People in Istanbul” in Anthropologica (Vol. 56, Issue 1, 2014)

If you have a book you would like to feature at this event, please contact Andi Sutton, GCWS Program Manager, at gcws@mit.edu.

About Feminisms Unbound

This Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (GCWS) initiative, Feminisms Unbound, is an event series featuring debates that focus on feminist concerns, theories, and practices in this contemporary moment. This series is intended to foster conversations and community among Boston-area feminist intellectuals and activists. The series, in its open configuration, endeavors to allow the greatest measure of engagement across multiple disciplinary trajectories, and a full array of feminist investments.

The event organizers, who are also visiting scholars with the GCWS this year, are Kimberly Juanita Brown, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, Mount Holyoke College, Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University, and Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College, have programmed the four events in this series.

Feminisms Unbound 2015-2016 Events

Public Feminisms: Roles, Responsibilities, Challenges
Wednesday, September 16th: 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: Building E51 Room 095, MIT Campus

Queer Diasporas and Futurities
Wednesday, November 18th: 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: The Moore Room, Building 6 Room 321, MIT Campus

New Terms in Feminist Studies
Wednesday, February 10th: 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: The Moore Room, Building 6 Room 321, MIT Campus

A Celebration of Books by GCWS Authors
Wednesday, April 13th: 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: The Moore Room, Building 6 Room 321, MIT Campus