Sentences with phrase «for 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.
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One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.
For example, legal scholar and leading feminist theorist Catherine MacKinnon has opined that human sexuality is «socially constructed» to maximize the perceived sexual desirability of women.
http://responsibleeatingandliving.com/shows/Ask-A-Vegan-April-1-2012.mp3Podcast: Play in new window DownloadCaryn discusses her brief meeting and conversations with vegan, ecofeminist, activist, scholar and founder of Feminists for Animal Rights, Marti Kheel before she passed in November 2011.
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.
Join us for a discussion with Anita Sarkeesian, media critic and feminist scholar.
The feminist's first reaction is to swallow the bait, hook, line and sinker, and to attempt to answer the question as it is put: i.e., to dig up examples of worthy or insufficiently appreciated women artists throughout history; to rehabilitate rather modest, if interesting and productive careers; to «re-discover» forgotten flower - painters or David - followers and make out a case for them; to demonstrate that Berthe Morisot was really less dependent on Manet than one had been led to think — in other words, to engage in the normal activity of the specialist scholar who makes a case for the importance of his very own neglected or minor master.
Balshaw also commented on the instantly successful new section for 2017, Sex Work, curated by independent curator and scholar Alison M. Gingeras which featured nine solo presentations of women artists working at the extreme edges of feminist practice: «As a woman born in 1970 raised by a tribe of feminist aunts, I find it tremendously exhilarating to see the women artists in Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics included in the context of an art fair.»
Some younger scholars were included — Carrie Lambert - Beatty and the artist Wangechi Mutu, for instance — and there was also a desire to hear from people who have only recently started working on feminist art, so we invited Richard Meyer and Helen Molesworth.
American artist, writer, curator and scholar Harmony Hammond, famed for her contributions to feminist art history, has chosen the Getty Research Institute to house her extensive archive.
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.
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