Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Solidarity and Commitment in a #MeToo Age: Honoring Psychologist Jeanne Marecek
Jeanne Marecek, one of the pioneers in studying the nexus of feminisms and psychologies, has been awarded the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award from the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Women.
University Coeducation Is Not a Triumph for Feminism
From sexual abuse to pay and promotion gaps and beyond, coeducation has not kept up with the promises which with it was introduced, argues the author of a new book on the subject.
Book Review: The Problem with Work
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. Kathi Weeks; Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, 304 pp., $23.95 ISBN […]
Suffragette – More than a Feminist Movie
With most works of art looking at the past, the real focus is the present. The new movie ‘Suffragette,’ writes Robert Dingwall, invites us to think about the consequences of political systems that are supposedly democratic but systematically exclude many voices.
Gloria Steinem and Passing the Torch
What impact has the current wave of feminism’s figurehead really had and what will happen when she’s gone?
Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women
Has equality for women been achieved? Feminism has apparently achieved many of its aims. But have they? Angela McRobbie from the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, discusses her research on this topic.
Generational Perspectives in the Workplace
What are the broader discourses that constitute intergenerational conflict around work/life balance for professional women? Linda Williams Favero of the University of […]
Emancipatory Islam: How Yemeni-American Women Balance their American Dreams
A qualitative study highlights the narratives of 20 Yemeni-American second-generation women in Detroit.
