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Short Takes

Short Takes: Dahlia Lithwick’s Lady Justice

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Janani Gopalakrishnan in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Kathryn Abrams, Libby Adler, Shoshanna Ehrlich, and Zinelle October discus Dahlia Lithwick’s new book Lady Justice, plus a response from Lithwick.

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Short Takes: Bad Sex by Nona Willis Aronowitz

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Signs GA in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

Elizabeth Armstrong, Tracy Clark-Flory, Rachel Hills, and Shira Tarrant discuss Nona Willis Aronowitz’s new book, and Willis Aronowitz offers a response to the commentaries on her book.

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Short Takes: Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention

Posted on August 17, 2022 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

Gabrielle Bruney, Stephen Dillon, Aviva Stahl, and Jess Whatcott discuss Hugh Ryan’s book The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. Plus, Ryan responds to the pieces on his book.

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Short Takes: Mona Chollet’s In Defense of Witches

Posted on May 20, 2022 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

Maryse Condé, Deirdre English, Sarah Lyons, and Bridget Marshall discuss Mona Chollet’s In Defense of Witches

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Short Takes: Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie’s Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Posted on March 15, 2022 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

LaShawn Harris, Jenn Jackson, Victoria Law, and Cassandra Shaylor discuss the new book Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie

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Short Takes: Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex

Posted on December 21, 2021 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

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Short Takes: Anita Hill’s Believing

Posted on December 15, 2021 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

Linda Hirshman, Linda C. McClain, Diana Moskovitz, and Barbara Ransby discuss Anita Hill’s book Believing, with a response from Hill

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Short Takes: Rafia Zakaria’s Against White Feminism

Posted on December 2, 2021 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

Kylie Cheung, Shoniqua Roach, Benita Roth, and Jamia Wilson discuss Rafia Zakaria’s Against White Feminism, with a response from Zakaria

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Short Takes: Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s Still Mad

Posted on November 3, 2021 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

Jennifer Baumgardner, Jennifer DeVere Brody, and Laura Green discuss Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s Still Mad.

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Short Takes: Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay’s Controlling Women

Posted on September 29, 2021 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes No Comments

Martha Davis, Lisa Maldonado, Robin Marty, and Rosalind Petchesky discuss Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay’s Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom, with a response from Kay and Kolbert.

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