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• Seeking New Board Members

  MP: An Online Feminist Journal is growing, and we are looking to expand our editorial board! We seek energetic people with a passion for feminist scholarship to help with handling our growing submission volume and with expanding the journal as it moves toward a regular publication cycle. We seek to add two new members at [...]

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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 [...]