Short Takes

Hillary Clinton’s What Happened

Posted on November 27, 2017 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Susan Bordo, Ana Marie Cox, Daisy Hernandez, and Dana Nelson provide feminist perspectives on Hillary Clinton’s What Happened.

Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

Posted on July 21, 2017 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Nell Painter, Carmen Rios, and Marjorie Spruill discuss Susan Bordo’s book The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, with a response from Bordo.

Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances

Posted on July 5, 2017 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Jaclyn Friedman, Kelly Oliver, Claire Potter, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Lisa Wade discuss Laura Kipnis’s new book Unwanted Advances, with a response from Kipnis.

Jessica Bennett’s Feminist Fight Club

Posted on May 16, 2017 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Catherine Connell, Liz Plank, Brigid Schulte, and Adia Harvey Wingfield discuss Jessica Bennett’s Feminist Fight Club, with a response from Bennett.

Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom

Posted on March 10, 2017 by amazzaschi in Short Takes

Marcie Bianco, Raewyn Connell, Jay Prosser, Susan Stryker, and Judit Takacs discuss Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom, with a response from Faludi.

Andi Zeisler’s We Were Feminists Once

Posted on October 19, 2016 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

This Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism features Andi Zeisler’s book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, with commentaries from Soraya Chemaly, Susan J. Douglas, Sara Evans, Amy Richards, and Kimberly Springer, with a response from Zeisler.

Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies

Posted on August 9, 2016 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Kate Bolick, Rebecca Carroll, Nancy F. Cott, Bella DePaulo, Barbara J. Risman, and Judith Stacey discuss Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation. The forum also includes a response from Traister. A great discussion of marriage, singledom, and feminism!

Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s Notorious RBG

Posted on June 16, 2016 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter

Posted on April 12, 2016 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Why Are We Now Talking about “Unfinished Business”? Heather Boushey The Unfinished Business of Race and Gender at Work Kimberly Freeman Brown Strengthening the Case for Policies to Support Caregiving Stephanie Coontz The Feminist Business Nancy Folbre Only the State, Not Benevolent Employers, Can Ensure Work-Family Balance Kathleen Geier Having It All Is Not a […]

Pro by Katha Pollitt

Posted on October 1, 2015 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

A Broad Argument, Narrowly Targeted Michelle Kinsey Bruns With Pro, Katha Pollitt Gives the Abortion Rights Movement Its Modern Credo Jill Filipovic The End of the Single-Issue Struggle Dani McClain Unmuddling the Muddled Middle: Pollitt’s Passionate Call to Action Eesha Pandit Let’s Talk about Sex, Not Abortion Loretta Ross Reproductive Justice 101 Rickie Solinger A […]

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