Volume 3, Issue 6: Fall Selections

MP BLOG Featured Posts

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  Book Review: A Year of Biblical Womanhood

  A Year of Biblical Womanhood, by Rachel Held Evans (Nashville:  Thomas Nelson, 2012) The subtitle of this book, “How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband ‘Master’,” provides an intriguing and true, but somewhat misleading, description of the actual contents. Held, who writes a blog on [...]

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  Swearing and Stitching: The 21st Century Approach to a Traditional Craft

  Guest blog writer Emily L. Newman holds a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Texas A&M University – Commerce. Often exploring the intersections between popular culture and art, her research focuses on the way contemporary artists have addressed female body image Femininity [...]

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  New Issue Available

    The latest issue of MP is on the website.   FEMINIST SUMMER CAMP Volume 3, Issue 5 Summer 2012 Articles Queering Masculinity: Sexual Dissidence as Anti-bullying Discourse in Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry by Justine Gieni A Womb of One’s Own: A Wandering Rhetoric by Lydia McDermott Deconstructing the Erotic: A Feminist Exploration of [...]

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  “Where are the 8s?”: Teens Talk Back to Media

  Guest blogger Jocelyn Sakal Froese is a PhD student in English and Culture Studies at McMaster University.             Despite its questionable title, this article in a March issue of Globe & Mail–an inquiry into the effects of media and advertising on young people–is an important one, not so much for what it does, but how it does [...]

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  Why Feminist Security Studies?

  Guest blogger Jamie J. Hagen is an NYC based writer on feminist and LGBTQ politics currently serving as Contributing Editor for Autostraddle and a research consultant for the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders(GNWP).  She has worked with several women’s groups concerned with the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 and is currently consulting on a GNWP monitoring [...]