Recent Posts Tagged With 'gender'

• Resolving the Paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau\'s Sexual Politics

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 03:05 in philosophy, academic, gender

  By Tamela IceUniversity Press of AmericaProfessor Ice begins her book with what she calls a paradox within philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's social philosophy. In her words, “Rousseau's views on women sits [sic] in tension with his philosophy of ...

• Women Who Kill

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 19:06 in gender, sociology, murder, american women

  By Ann Jones Feminist PressLet me first just throw the creepiness right out there and admit I am a big fan of all media coverage related to serial killers. I love the horrible shows like Cold Case Files, and I love the even crappier rushed books writ...

• The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 10:48 in native american, tattoo, gender, Genocide, colonialism, whiteness

  By Margot MifflinUniversity of Nebraska Press The Blue Tattoo tells the story of Olive Oatman, a nineteenth century woman with an unusual life. In 1851, Oatman was violently abducted along with her younger sister by Yavapais after watching this group...

• Little Bird of Heaven

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 11:51 in fiction, novel, gender, murder, substance abuse, childhood trauma

  By Joyce Carol OatesECCO BooksOates' thirty-sixth novel grapples with familiar themes: the rocky underside of marriage, racial injustice, childhood trauma, sexual obsession, and the ways gender plays out among various subsets of the U.S. working clas...

• You’ve Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 11:26 in transgender, essays, trans, gender, gender identity

  Edited by Laurie J. ShrageOxford University PressEach essay in Laurie J. Shrage’s collection, You've Changed, takes on the challenge of analyzing the philosophical, cultural, and psychological dimensions of the—for lack of a better or more acute ...

• Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 11:51 in lesbian, gay, sex, queer, liberation, gender, movement, anthology

  Edited by Tommi Avicolli MeccaCity Lights BooksLike all good memoirs of the 1960s and early ‘70s, Smash the Church, Smash the State! takes readers back to a time when revolution seemed imminent. Change was in the air and the fifty-one essays compri...