Sentences with phrase «feminist scholars»

"Feminist scholars" refers to individuals who study and analyze various aspects of gender inequality, with a specific focus on advancing the rights and equality of women. They examine issues such as patriarchy, sexism, and discrimination in order to promote gender justice and improve women's social, political, and economic status. Full definition
The chief exception to this in recent times is among women pastors, some of whom do keep up with the work of feminist scholars and theologians.
The opening show, a historic survey of sculpture made by women, curated in collaboration with feminist scholar Jenni Sorkin, will include rare and early works by now venerated 20th century figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Lee Bontecou.
It originated in a 1989 article about antidiscrimination law, in which black feminist scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw made a case for treating race and gender not as separate legal categories but as a new, combined category.
As feminist scholars are not slow to point out, there is a very definite social context in Freud's time that led so many women to collapse into hysterics in his office.
The project, titled «Now Be Here,» was inspired by the gallery's current exhibition, «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016,» curated by gallery partner Paul Schimmel and feminist scholar Jenni Sorkin, and examining the often overlooked role of women in the 20th century history of sculpture.
This oft - quoted passage from Lorde's 1988 A Burst of Light came some four years after her diagnosis of liver cancer (plus breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy a decade before) and her position as an outsider, a Black lesbian feminist scholar living and slowly dying within a socially hardened America.
came some four years after her diagnosis of liver cancer (plus breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy a decade before) and her position as an outsider, a Black lesbian feminist scholar living and slowly dying within a socially hardened America.
In recent decades, it has gained attention from feminist scholars who want to understand why the surname tradition remains widely endorsed despite marked changes in the role that women play in society and in the labor force.
But surely, feminist scholars say (and I think rightly), bourgeois Vienna with its official Hapsburg ideology of duty and hierarchy and its rigid assignment of masculine and feminine roles must be the real culprit, and not some jerry - built theory cobbled together from Freud's schoolboy Sophocles and Comte's dreary one - dimensional positivism (Wittgenstein called Freud the «great mythographer of the twentieth century»).
I am not a Whiteheadian scholar, and my limited understanding of process thought has been developed primarily through contact with feminist scholars writing from that perspective.
And why no women contributors, given the new and disturbing questions feminist scholars have put to an essentially male canon and to male interpretations of it?
Her concept contains what black feminist scholar Bell Hooks in From Margin to Center identifies as cultural codes.
On Sept. 20, it will sponsor a live debate at NYU's Skirball Center in New York with ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams and journalist Hanna Rosin (you may know her from her controversial Atlantic article last year, The End of Men), who will argue for the idea, while feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers and Men's Health magazine editor - in - chief David Zinczenko arguing against it.
The exhibition attracted attention to her work, and she became one of the many forgotten, or overshadowed, women artists reinvestigated and reintroduced by feminist scholars.
Surprisingly, or perhaps not for feminist scholars, women's bodies continued to be used by the new Islamic regime as a focal point to distinguish themselves politically and ideologically from their predecessors.
To this end, we engage with the writings of feminist scholars Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, whose landmark work, The Madwoman in the Attic, critiques the image of the female monster as a creation of the male - dominated Western literary canon.
New York, NY About Blog The Barnard Center for Research on Women offers intersectional feminist scholar - activist collaborations, events, publications & multimedia archives.
Cultural anthropologist / feminist scholar Helen Gremillion outlines her ideas on Feminism, Culture, Identity and narrative therapy
But, as some feminist scholars have underlined, there is a hidden inconsistency in many of the «We Girls Can Do Anything» messages (like the ones Barbie puts out in its «Barbie I Can Be» campaign).
I'm no feminist scholar, but from what little I recall from a few undergrad courses, this woman makes the fundamental error of assuming equal means «the same».
One doesn't need to be a feminist scholar to make some educated guesses about why this image of the nanny emerged as more mothers entered the workforce and created lives outside of the home.
Some feminist scholars are critical of this, positing that a male - dominated political system forced its female inhabitants to become more masculine to survive.
Our final round judges are a carefully selected panel with a mix of published writers, feminist scholars, and activists.
In my thirties, feminist scholars and theologians expanded the philosophic and political base of my worldview.
Join us for a discussion with Anita Sarkeesian, media critic and feminist scholar.
In a conversation with the feminist scholar bell hooks, the African American architect LaVerne Wells - Bowie underscored the importance of making space black, or having a direct engagement with building structures that:
Here's how the feminist scholar Peggy Phelan describes the work, Ever Is Over All, which Rist created for the 47th Venice Biennale, in our monograph.
In the 1970s, feminist scholars (particularly literary theorists) in both France and the United States focused on the word as a celebration of women's difference central to a better understanding of how stereotypes played a negative role in the debate around gender and racial liberation.
The exhibition will be presented June 14 — July 26, 2014 with an opening reception on Saturday, June 14 from 2:00 - 5:00 PM and a gallery talk from 3:30 — 5:00 PM between Judy Chicago and Dr. Kathy Battista, a feminist scholar, writer, curator and Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York.
Global About Blog We establish this blog in the hope that feminist scholars of religion and all who are interested in these issues will use this forum to share their ideas, insights, and experiences, so that this community of thinkers will be nurtured as we explore diverse and new directions.
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