Spring 2022 - Gender and Sexuality
Flesh of My Flesh
Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.
Making the Case
Analyzes the value of using case-based methodologies to address contemporary social justice issues in philosophy.
More Than Our Pain
Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.
Battling the Prince
This political memoir exposes the weaknesses of democratic culture in the United States and suggests ways to strengthen it in the face of rising authoritarianism.
Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers
A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.
Antigone's Sisters
An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.
Avant-Gardes in Crisis
Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.
Sappho's Legacy
Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.
Antigone in the Americas
Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.
Poetics of Breathing
A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.
The Other/Argentina
Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation.
Fracture Feminism
Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.
Black Women and Public Health
Moves Black women's voices and experiences from the margins to the center of conversations about public health.
Ida Rubinstein
The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.
Mary Frank
Presents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist's illustrious career.
Screening #MeToo
Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.
Tales from Du Bois
Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.
Engaging Italy
Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.