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2017; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/692778
ISSN1545-6943
Tópico(s)Gender Politics and Representation
ResumoPrevious articleNext article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAlexia Bloch ([email protected]) is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on intimacy and belonging, kinship, and shifting ideals of citizenship in an increasingly mobile world, particularly postsocialist Eurasia. Her publications include Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State and Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East (Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003 and 2004, respectively). Her book “Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic” will be published by Cornell University Press in late 2017.Soraya Chemaly is a writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media. She is the director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project and organizer of the Safety and Free Speech Coalition, both of which are involved in curbing online abuse, promoting media and tech diversity, and expanding women’s freedom of expression. She writes and speaks regularly about gender, media, tech, education, women’s rights, sexual violence, and free speech. Her work has appeared in Time, the Guardian, the Nation, the Huffington Post, the Atlantic, and Role/Reboot.Elora Halim Chowdhury is associate professor and chair in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her teaching and research interests include transnational feminism, critical development studies, violence, and human rights advocacy, with an emphasis on South Asia. She is the author of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2011), which was awarded the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association in 2012. Her recent book, coedited with Liz Philipose, is titled Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016). She serves as the series editor of the Dissident Feminisms Series at the University of Illinois Press.Amy E. Den Ouden is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005) and the coauthor, with Jean O’Brien, of Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the U.S. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013). Recent essays include “Histories with Communities: Struggles, Collaborations, Transformations,” in Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies, ed. Chris Andersen and Jean M. O’Brien (New York: Routledge, 2017). Currently her research is focused on indigenous women and gender violence in colonial New England.Susan J. Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Communication Studies, and former department chair, at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild (New York: St. Martin’s, 2010) and Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (New York: Three Rivers, 1994), and the coauthor, with Meredith Michaels, of The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Undermines Women (New York: Free Press, 2004). She has lectured at colleges and universities around the country and has written for the Nation, In These Times, the Village Voice, Ms., the Washington Post, and TV Guide, and she was media critic for The Progressive from 1992 to 1998. Her column “Back Talk” appears monthly in In These Times.Sara Evans, Regents Professor Emerita, spent her career teaching women’s history at the University of Minnesota. Her research on the history of feminism as a social movement grew from her own involvement in civil rights, antiwar, and women’s rights activism. Her publications include Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003) and Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage, 1980).Caron E. Gentry is a senior lecturer at the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. She is the coauthor, with Laura Sjoberg, of Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Thinking about Women’s Violence in Global Politics (London: Zed, 2015).For more than thirty-five years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her medium, whether formulated as a t-shirt, a plaque, or an LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and continuing through her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and courage. Holzer received the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award in 1996, and the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011. She holds honorary degrees from Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, the New School, and Smith College. She lives and works in New York.Sarah Johnson ([email protected]) is a sociology PhD student at the University of Virginia. Her primary research interests include gender, feminism, and popular culture. She is currently working with qualitative data, looking at on- and offline conversations around the television series Game of Thrones as a site of gender politics and discourse formation.Sophie Lewis is the author of “Uterine Geography,” a research article forthcoming in Dialogues in Human Geography, and “Surrogacy as Feminism: The Philanthrocapitalist Framing of Contract Pregnancy,” forthcoming in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. She has published multiple book reviews (including two in Antipode) and a chapter, “Gestational Labors,” in the anthology Intimate Economies, ed. Susanne Hoffman and Adi Moreno (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She holds a first-class BA in English language and literature from Oxford University and an MSc with Distinction (also Oxon) in nature, society, and environmental policy. She submitted her PhD—titled “Cyborg Labour”—to the University of Manchester in 2016.Bonnie J. Morris is a women’s studies professor with twenty-two years on the faculty of both George Washington University and Georgetown University. She is the author of fifteen books, including three Lambda Literary Finalists (Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals [Los Angeles: Alyson, 1999], Girl Reel [Minneapolis: Coffee House, 2000], and Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor [Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009]), and the recent texts Women’s History for Beginners (Danbury, CT: For Beginners, 2012) and The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbians Spaces and Culture (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2016). Her recent exhibit on women’s music at the Library of Congress broke new ground in showcasing lesbian albums. She lectures on Olivia cruises.Kelly Suzanne O’Donnell ([email protected]) is a historian of medicine and gender in the twentieth-century United States. She received her PhD in 2015 from Yale University’s Program in the History of Science and Medicine, where she wrote a biography of feminist health activist Barbara Seaman. She currently lives in Philadelphia.Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón ([email protected]) is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at SUNY New Paltz. Recent publications include “Ways of Being Seen: Gender and the Writing on the Wall,” in Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art, ed. Jeffrey Ian Ross (New York: Routledge, 2016), and “Daring to Be ‘Mujeres Libres, Lindas, Locas’: An Interview with the Ladies Destroying Crew of Nicaragua and Costa Rica,” in La Verdad: The Reader of Hip Hop Latinidades (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016). She coedited “All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip-Hop Scholarship” with Shanté Paradigm Smalls for Women and Performance 24, no. 1 (2014). Her book “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip-Hop Diaspora” is forthcoming with New York University Press in 2018.Andrea L. Press ([email protected], andrealeepress.com) is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Media Studies Department and served as executive director of the Virginia Film Festival. She is the coeditor, with Andrea Cavalcante and Katherine Sender, of “Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-audience Age,” a special issue of Feminist Media Studies 17, no. 1 (2017). She is the author of Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991) and “Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism” (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming) and the coauthor, with Bruce Alan Williams, of The New Media Environment: An Introduction (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).Amy Richards is the executive producer of the Viceland series Woman and the president of Soapbox, Inc. She has authored several books, articles, and essays on contemporary feminism, including Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (with Jennifer Baumgardner; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) and Opting In: Having a Child without Losing Yourself (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). She is a longtime consultant to MAKERS and is the chair of the board of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project.Sarah S. Richardson is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. She is jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Richardson is the author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013) and is currently completing a second book, “The Maternal Imprint,” forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.Veronica Sanz ([email protected]) is visiting scholar and director of the Program for Gender, Race, Science, Technology, and Citizenship at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has recently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society and has taught at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She holds a PhD from the University Complutense of Madrid and is committed to strengthening the communication between Spanish-speaking feminist techno-science studies and Anglo-American ones.Kimberly Springer practices digital engagement in public radio. Her books include Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005) and the edited volumes Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women’s Contemporary Activism (New York: New York University Press, 1999) and Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture, coedited with Trystan T. Cotton (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009). She publishes a periodic newsletter on digital culture, Notes from the Echo Chamber (http://tinyletter.com/echo_chamber). You can also hear her podcast, Let’s Review, a short series on current events, pop culture, identity, and the tricky art of navigating life, at https://medium.com/lets-review.Rachel Sykes is lecturer in contemporary American literature at the University of Birmingham. Having previously taught at the University of Nottingham, University of Leicester, and Nottingham Trent University, she also worked as a journalist for CityWide News in Dublin. Her first monograph, “The Quiet Contemporary American Novel,” is forthcoming with Manchester University Press; an article relating to this project, “Reading for Quiet in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Novels,” was published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 58, no. 2 (2017).Anita Wohlmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English and Linguistics (American Studies) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Her research project “Body and Metaphor: Narrative-Based Metaphor Analysis in Medical Humanities” is funded by the German Research Foundation (2017–20). Publications include Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014) and a coedited volume on Serializing Age: Aging and Old Age in TV Series (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016) with Maricel Oró Piqueras. She has also published in peer-reviewed journals on age, metaphor, gender, health humanities, narrative medicine, and life writing.Andi Zeisler is the cofounder of Bitch Media, the feminist media organization best known for publishing the magazine Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Ms., Mother Jones, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. Her previous books include Feminism and Pop Culture (Berkeley, CA: Seal, 2008) and BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006). She speaks frequently on the subjects of feminism, activism, and pop culture at colleges and universities around the country and abroad. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 43, Number 1Autumn 2017 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/692778 © 2017 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
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