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Two Books on Women in Prehistory
Taylor, Timothy. The Prehistory of Sex. NY: Bantam Books, 1996. Ryan, Christopher and Jetha, Cacilda. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. NY: HarperCollins 2010 Both of these books concern, in large part, the place of women in prehistoric societies, but are viewed from different academic perspectives. Taylor is an archaeologist; Ryan is [...]
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Open Call for Papers: Spring Issue 2012
MP: An Online Feminist Journal is seeking submissions for its spring issue. We seek scholarly articles, book reviews, and short essays that engage any aspect of feminism or feminist scholarship. Interdisciplinary and international submissions are highly encouraged. We recently have published essays about the body, the academy, religion, girls’ studies, work, activism, and agency. Maximum [...]
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Could Sam Berlant Ride the Train in Pennsylvania?
An upcoming issue of MP focuses in part on transgender. Mainstream society has definite gender expectations . As an example there was a recent firestorm over a J Crew ad that showed a mother painting her young son’s toenails pink. Another is the reception one mother received when she allowed her five year old [...]
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Achieve or Opportunity?
The neurological research done for marketing purposes turns up some fascinating information. One recent research finding, showed differences in men and woman that were identical in the U.S. and China. In a research study for Intel, 12 men and 12 women each in Berkeley and a city in Schian Province, wore devices that detect electrical [...]
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Bechdel Test
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel popularized a method for testing how inclusive movies are for women. She credits her friend Liz Wallace with developing the criteria but they appeared in Bechdel’s comic “Dykes to Watch Out For” and so the test is known as the Bechdel Test or Bechdel Rule (sometimes the Bechdel / Wallace Test). The [...]