By Jennifer S. Clark, author of Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation
When I started writing a book about the women’s movement and television, I imagined that it would explore how feminism changed what Americans saw on their TV screens. But as the project...
Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconfor...
March 8, 1950—International Women’s Day—Marked the Embrace of a Feminist Battle Against Imperialism
This post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square and is reposted here with permission.
By Elisabeth B. Armstrong, author of Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary...
By Leigh Goodmark, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism
Sally McNeil, like many of the people featured in my new book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, is an imperfect victim.
The su...
Catherine Conybeare is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She recently guest-edited a special issue of UC Press’s journal Classical Antiquity responding to Bonnie Honig’s book A Feminist Theory of Refusal (Harvard...
Janet Garcia-Hallett, an Afro-Latina mother, first-gen scholar, and a product of Harlem, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences. For the annual American Criminology Society conference, she ...
UC Press is spotlighting books that provide context to the struggles and solidarity of women in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and beyond. These books delve into the histories of Muslim feminism past and present as their activism shapes not only the local but also the geopolitical in a...
A look into the work and career of artist Lorraine O’Grady is also a chronicle of the art world’s exclusionary politics. As Cassidy George writes in an article for Vogue: “O’Grady—both then and now—saw the city’s art scene for what it was: an elitist world defined by hierarchies of race, ...
For this year’s virtual MESA conference, UC Press author Nicola Pratt joined us to talk about her book Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordon, and Lebanon and what the West gets wrong about women’s activism in the Middle East.
Nicola Pratt is Associ...