Feminist Theorist Thursdays
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January 16, 2020
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Fawn Brodie
Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981) was one of the first women to become a tenured professor at UCLA, a controversial biographer,…
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November 14, 2019
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934-2017) was an American feminist theorist, activist, writer, educator and filmmaker. Her main areas of interest were mental…
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March 1, 2019
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: bell hooks
Image from Wikimedia Commons. bell hooks is a Black feminist theorist, professor, and cultural critic who has authored over 30…
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April 5, 2018
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Mitsuye Yamada
Mitsuye Yamada is a Japanese American writer, educator, and activist. Her works expose the discrimination faced by Japanese Americans during…
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February 28, 2018
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Angela Davis
Davis has since become the figurehead for the prison abolition movement, a movement that calls into question what it means…
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February 22, 2018
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins is an acclaimed social theorist known for her intersectional approach to the sociologies of feminism, Black liberation,…
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February 22, 2018
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Gayatri Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar who continues to add to many academic disciplines. She is known mainly for…
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November 30, 2017
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” This provocative assertion from Simone de Beauvoir’s acclaimed book, “The Second…
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November 23, 2017
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Adrienne Rich
In her letter to the NEA chair, Rich stated: “There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to…
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October 19, 2017
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Gloria Anzaldúa
Throughout her lifetime of writing, Anzaldúa consistently contributed to theories countering social oppression, spanning topics that encompassed her intersectional identities.…
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