Tag: Me Too

March 24, 2020

Q&A: Raya Morag on the #MeToo Movement, Cambodian Cinema, and the Case of Forced Marriage and Rape

“This compelling book will matter as long as mass atrocities persist. Focused on the Cambodian genocide, Morag addresses a new phase in how we confront such events: films where survivors confront perpetrators face-to-face. These confrontations bring the visceral truth borne...

March 8, 2020

How the Harvey Weinstein Verdict Changed the Credibility of Women’s Testimony

By Leigh Gilmore

“In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women’s testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how...

April 17, 2019

Q&A: Hunter Vaughan on Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret

“In Vaughan’s deft readings of multiple films and their production apparatuses, film theory and analysis also become “updated” into a cutting-edge discipline. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an essential book in ecocinema and ecomedia studies and an important contribution to ecomaterialism within cultural...

March 11, 2019

Q&A: Nancy K. Miller on My Brilliant Friends

 “In this astute, passionate, rigorously honest book about her friendships with three extraordinary women, Miller delineates the mysterious geography of those attachments we are not born into, but choose freely. The longing, pain, confusion, envy, and joy that inhabit the...

January 19, 2019

Roundup: Women’s Issues and Women’s Rights

Today, as advocates participate in the third annual Women’s March to push for legislation and policies that advance human rights, women’s rights, immigration and healthcare reform, and more, we’re featuring a roundup of some of our most recent and relevant...

January 16, 2019

Ira Millstein on The Activist Director – Why It’s Needed Now More Than Ever!

“No one has more experience with corporate boards, and insights into what makes them work, than Ira Millstein. The Activist Director reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly from some of the biggest management failures—and successes—in recent history.” ~ Michael Bloomberg,...

December 17, 2018

A Video Tribute to 30 Years of Gender and the Politics of History, by Joan Wallach Scott

In October 2018, the Department of History at Simon Fraser University invited Joan Wallach Scott to give a public lecture in Vancouver, Canada. In the months leading up to the visit, Roxanne Panchasi, an Associate Professor of History at SFU...

November 29, 2018

The N-Word, Again: Bénédicte Boisseron on Afro-Dog Blackness and the Animal Question

“Dazzling in its reach and groundbreaking in its methodology, Afro-Dogredraws the contours of intellectual inquiry with dogs at the lead. Boisseron aims to rethink the hyper-legality of racism and the practice of inequality in ways that are radical and far-reaching.” ~...

October 2, 2018

Sheri Chinen Biesen on Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen

“Through original and rich case studies, this volume explores the authorship, power and organization of censorship in compelling ways. Enormously valuable.” ~ Ellen Scott, University of California, Los Angeles This week one of our featured titles is Sheri Chinen Biesen’s new...

August 16, 2018

Erast Ovcharov Makes Advances Toward Olenka (chapter 14 excerpt)

In honor of Women in Translation Month,  this week we’re featuring Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk. Yesterday, you read about a A Nineteenth-Century #MeToo Moment. Today, we present you with an excerpt of chapter 14, in which Erast Ovcharov makes advances toward Olenka, our young female...