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Short Takes

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.

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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!

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Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s Notorious RBG

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

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

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 […]

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Katha Pollitt’s Pro

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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Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist

Posted on June 12, 2015 by amazzaschi in Feminist Public Intellectuals Project, Short Takes

Jennifer Baumgardner, Brittney Cooper, Carla Kaplan, Patricia J. Williams, and Naomi Wolf offer commentaries on Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay.

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