Along with Danielle Hanley (Clark University), I coordinate the Feminist Political Theory Reading Group for interested faculty. For our next meeting, we’re reading Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender?.
Previously Read
February 26: Manon Garcia, The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex
January 22, 2024: Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip
December 4: Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer
October 23: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
September 11: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
July 31: Ela Przybylo, Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality
June 26: Durba Mitra, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
May 22: Signs (46.4, 2021), issue devoted to rage
April 24: Srila Roy, Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India
March 20: Marquis Bey, Black Trans Feminism
January 23, 2023: Angela Davis et. al., Abolition. Feminism. Now.
December 12: Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child
November 21: Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People
October 18: Manon Garcia, We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives
September 12: Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago, A Feminist Reading of Debt
July 18: Jacqueline Rose, On Violence and On Violence Against Women
June 21: Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born
May 16: Sara Ahmed, Complaint!
April 4: Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch
February 22: Ewa Majewska, Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common
January 24, 2022: Bonnie Honig, A Feminist Theory of Refusal
December 6: Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
November 4: Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
August 31: Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
July 22: Françoise Vergès, A Decolonial Feminism
June 29: Clare Hemmings, Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory
May 24: Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
April 7: Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
February 19, 2021: Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig, Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence