Alumni, faculty, students, staff and community are invited to join the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Monthly Book Club Series.
The coronavirus epidemic has made the vulnerability of the human body all too palpable. Anyone can get sick. Yet some populations are more vulnerable than others. The virus has cast these inequities and injustices - born of histories of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia - into high relief. Can attending to shared bodily vulnerabilities strengthen individual and collective responses to structural inequalities? How do care, critique, and surveillance coexist in a moment in which our responsibility to and for one another has taken on additional urgency? What do differing definitions of what some are calling a “culture of mutual responsibility” convey about institutional and governmental priorities? Is mutual responsibility possible within the context of physical and social distancing?
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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”:
- https://www.vox.com/21353939/portland-wall-of-moms-collapses-to-form-moms-united-for-black-lives
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