The Future is Feminist Book Club
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This Fall 2020 semester the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program is proud to offer The Future is Feminist: A Feminist Theory Bookclub to take place over three Sundays from 3:30-5pm via Zoom! We will be reading works on Conceptualizing Vulnerability, Self-Care and Mutual Aid, and Emotional Labor: Mothering as Activism.
We hope to see you there!
Reading Schedule
September 20: Conceptualizing Vulnerability
- Judith Butler, "Violence, Mourning, Politics"
- Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, introduction, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, introduction, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
October 18: Self-Care and Mutual Aid
- Selections from Social Text 38:1. 2020. Radical Care: Survival Strategies for Uncertain Times, Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart; Tamara Kneese
November 15: Emotional Labor: Mothering as Activism
- Alison Jaggar, "Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology"
- Patricia Hill Collins, "The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships"
- Diana Taylor, "Making a Spectacle: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo"
- "How Portland's Wall of Mom's collapsed- and was reborn under Black leadership"