Gender Troubles is a podcast dedicated to debunking, demystifying and making accessible the world of academic feminism. Eva and Emma talk through different feminist movements and moments from a critical, leftist lens. Episodes aim to shake up the feminist
Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade
Life has been busy but we came out of hibernation to release this fall reading list! We'll be back in a few weeks with more episodes. Show notes: Books- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor How to do Nothing, by Jenny Odell Females, by Andrea Long Chu Once and Future Feminist, edited by Merve Emre A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers Podcasts- Novara FM You're Wrong About - Online Shopping Articles of Interest TV Shows- I May Destroy You, written/directed by Michaela Coel All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras
In the FINAL episode of porn month, we interview Maggie MacDonald, a 4th year PhD student who studies the platformization of porn. We talk porn platforms, deepfakes, and anti-sex work policy in Canada. To read all the articles discussed in this episode, head to Maggie's website: https://www.internetmaggie.com Check out the Maggie's Toronto Sex Work Action Project here: https://www.maggiesto.org Gender Troubles will be taking a little break over the summer to rest and write more great episodes! Thanks for listening and we'll be back in September with lots more content
Emma and Eva talk about the sex wars (also known as the porn wars), a time in the 1980s when debates on sexuality, pornography and kink dominated the feminist conversation. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network reading list: Diary of a Conference on Sexuality Pleasure and danger : exploring female sexuality (Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex" starts on page 267) Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis Off our backs, "towards a politics of sexuality" Juggling : a memoir of work, family, and feminism Explanation of the Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance Dworkin's "Against the Male Flood" and MacKinnon's "Only Words
From Pompeii to Pornhub, Eva & Emma discuss the long history of porn. Show notes: https://www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms1.html https://www.proquest.com/openview/31a0431f5269893f8a5632a062bf0a46/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 https://susannapaasonen.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/01pornification23-32.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/e/e7/Williams_Linda_Hard_Core_Power_Pleasure_and_the_Frenzy_of_the_Visible.pdf https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-the-internet-changed-porn-201674/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/30/internet-porn-says-more-about-ourselves-than-technology https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/06/16/the-shady-secret-history-of-onlyfans-billionaire-owner/?sh=1b1496085c17 Staying power: The mainstreaming of the hard -core pornographic film industry, 1969–1990 Johnson, Stephen Patrick. University of Maryland, College Park ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2009. 3359387. https://archive.org/details/historyofpornogr0000unse/page/2/mode/1up?view=theater Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation. TV Mini Series. 1999.
We kick off Porn Month with a conversation with Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue, of the podcast Pullback! Pullback investigates the ethical issues behind everyday goods and services. Kyla and Kristen help us work through the issues around the ethical consumption of pornography. What does it look like to be an ethical porn consumer? What are the best ways to directly support porn creators? Is OnlyFans like farm-to-table cuisine? Listen now to find out. You can find Pullback here and follow them on Instagram Twitter Facebook The book we discuss, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor and Late Capitalism" can be found here Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network
This episode, we talk through our thoughts about the leaked Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade. Readings and Recommendations Interrupting Criminalization, Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization Reproaction, Understanding and Advocating for Self-Managed Abortion Plan C, A Guide to Abortion Pills Online Evan Greer, digital security thread Caroline Duble, resource thread Melissa Gira Grant, The Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress Jenny Brown, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (free ebook) Science Vs, The Abortion Underground 5-4 Podcast, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health: The End of Roe K. Adetoyin, No More Coat Hanger Imagery tiktok Some lists of Abortion Funds: here, here, here, and here
This week, Eva and Emma talk about surrogacy. They discuss different feminist perspectives on the topic and consider how we can expand the definitions of "parenthood" and "family" beyond the nuclear model. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network READING LIST: Anita L. Allen, "The Black Surrogate Mother" Elizabeth S. Scott, "Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification" Radiolab, "Birthstory" Angela Davis, "Surrogates and Outcast Mothers: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties" Katherine B. Lieber, "Selling the Womb: Can the Feminist Critique of Surrogacy Be Answered?" Barbara Katz Rothman, "Reproductive Technologies and Surrogacy: A Feminist Perspective" Sophie Lewis, "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family" Sophie Lewis, "What is Family Abolition?" "Baby M" Surrogate Mother who fought for custody, video Cover image: Louise Bourgeois, "The Family" (2007)
What's postmodern feminism? In this episode we desperately try to answer that question! Show notes: "Explainer: What is Postmodernism" by David Palmer, 2014 Artland "What is Dadaism?" "On Judith Butler & Performativity" by Sarah Salih, 2007 Feminist thought : a comprehensive introduction" by Rosemarie Tong, 1989 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 3. Feminist Postmodernism Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1999.
Eva and Emma talk about the male gaze, from its origins in feminist film criticism to how the concept gets used today. They also discuss what is often left out from the discourses around the male gaze... (hint: it's capitalism) and also get interrupted by Emma's lovey, loud cat! Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network READING LIST: Big Mama, tiktok Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (includes 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' and 'Women and Representation') Janell Hobson, 'Viewing in the Dark: Toward a Black Feminist Approach to Film' Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman, 'The Gaze Revisited, or Reviewing Queer Viewing' John Berger, 'Ways of Seeing' show and book Laura Mulvey, 'Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'' Guerrilla Girls, archive San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'The Female Gaze' video series Molly Moss, 'thoughts on a queer gaze' Eliza McDonough, 'Radical Queer Gazes'
In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss the history of gender discrimination within the Canadian Indian Act, and the Indigenous women who have been fighting to overturn this sexism since the 1960's. Show notes: Indigenous authors and organizations: Settee, Priscilla. “Indigenous Women Charting Local and Global Pathways Forward.” The English Journal, vol. 106, no. 1, National Council of Teachers of English, 2016, pp. 45–50 Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership, and First Nation Citizenship Fact Sheet, Government of Canada, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Ontario Native Women's Association, Feathers of Hope Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2014. Gehl, Lynn. 2000. “The Queen and I: Discrimination Against Women.” Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers De La Femme Volume 20, Number 2 Borrows, John. 2016. “Unextinguished: Rights And The Indian Act”. University of New Brunswick Law Journal Volume 67. The Indian Act Said What?, Native Women's Association of Canada Ongoing Indian Act Inequity Issues- Enfranchisement & Marital Status, Native Women's Association of Canada Presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs Re: Bill S-3 – An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex- based inequities in registration) Submitted by Dr. Pamela D. Palmater Other sources: Gender discrimination persists in Canada's Indian Act, United Nations committee rules, APTN National News Bill C-31, Indigenous Foundations, First Nations & Indigenous Studies, UBC https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1467214955663/1572460311596 Milloy John. 1991. “The Early Indian Acts: Developmental strategy and constitutional change.” In Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-White Relations in Canada, edited by J.R. Miller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Day, S. (2019). Equal Status for Indigenous Women— Sometime, Not Now : The Indian Act and Bill S-3. Canadian Woman Studies, 33(1-2). Retrieved from https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/37770 Indian Act Sex Discrimination, Gwen Brodsky Women in Canadian History: Mary Two-Axe Earley, Rise Up Feminist Archive
In the late 1800s, both First-wave feminism and the women-lead Temperance Movement were gaining steam in North America. But why did so many more women join the temperance movement than the suffrage cause? Eva tells Emma about the different strategies both movements used to recruit members, focusing in on the ways christian morality and fears over family safety helped (white, Protestant) women conceive of themselves as political participants. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network Reading List: Sophie Lewis, Shebeen Queens Elizabeth K. Churchill, article in The Women's Journal Mother Stewart, Memories of the crusade; a thrilling account of the great uprising of the women of Ohio in 1873, against the liquor crime Criminal, ep 73 Carry A. Nation Suzanne M. Marilley, Frances Willard and the Feminism of Fear The Canadian Encyclopedia, Temperance Movement in Canada Frances Willard, Hints and Helps in our Temperance Work Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade OSU, Woman's Crusade of 1873-74 Cover Image: "A woman's liquor raid - how the ladies of Fredericktown, O. abolished the traffic of ardent spirits in their town" from The National Police Gazette, Nov. 8 1879
In this week's episode, Emma tells Eva about the history of domestic work, and the patterns of colonialism and racism that still permeate this area of employment. Plus, a rundown of some major successes in domestic worker collective organizing that have resulted in better wages, better working conditions, and more rights for these workers. Cover image: Colonial Dining by William Henry Jackson, 1895 Show notes: Modigliani, Kathy. “BUT WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN? CHILDCARE, WOMEN, AND DEVALUED LABOR.” The Journal of Education, vol. 168, no. 3, Trustees of Boston University, 1986, pp. 46–69, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42741755. MATHER, CELIA. “Domestic Workers: Their Time Now.” International Union Rights, vol. 17, no. 4, International Centre for Trade Union Rights, 2010, pp. 17–19, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41937560. Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar. “The Indenture of Migrant Domestic Workers.” Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 1/2, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2017, pp. 113–27, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44474112. Nanny Knows Best: The History of the British Nanny, Katherine Holden, History Press, 2013 https://www.domesticworkers.org/about-domestic-work/domestic-worker-history/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/03/hellraiser-juana-nicolas/ https://canadianlabour.ca/canadas-unions-call-for-recognition-of-the-importance-of-domestic-workers/ https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C189 https://www.ryerson.ca/socialjustice/social-justice-week/2020/10/united-for-domestic-workers-rights/ https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/daycare-during-wartime https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2009-09-06-0909050150-story.html https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/legal-scholar-fights-to-protect-domestic-workers-from-exploitative-conditions-1.5893958 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/advocates-call-for-changes-to-ottawa-s-nanny-program-1.527167 https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campaigns/foreign-worker-rights.html https://www.vox.com/2018/4/26/17275708/housekeepers-nannies-sexual-harassment-laws https://fee.org/articles/unionizing-nanny/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/obituaries/dorothy-bolden-overlooked.html https://ca.talent.com/salary?job=nanny
This week: a celebration of the life and work of bell hooks, who died last week at the age of 69. bell was an unparalleled writer, poet, and theorist, and was incredibly influential in the feminist movement. In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss some of their favourite pieces by bell. Please read the following pieces of writing about bell, written by Black folks and people of colour. Hua Hsu: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks Arabelle Sicardi: https://arabellesicardi.substack.com/p/bell-hooks-will-live-forever Maiysha Kai: https://www.theroot.com/bell-hooks-author-educator-and-feminist-icon-dead-at-1848220902 Tao Leigh Goffe: https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/bell-hooks-books-essays-to-read.html Lynnée Denise:https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-19/appreciation-bell-hooks Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés: https://twitter.com/CeciliaMilanes/status/1471238070653657096 A compilation of people: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/16/bell-hooks-remembered-she-reminded-us-of-the-better-world-we-were-working-towards Read full books and articles by bell hooks online. Please consider donating to Bilphena's library! https://www.bilphenaslibrary.com/books Show notes: https://blackrosefed.org/intersectionalism-bell-hooks-interview/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMVqnyTo_0 http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/gustafson/FILM%20165A.W11/film%20165A%5BW11%5D%20readings%20/hooksparis.pdf https://www.uwyo.edu/aded5050/5050unit12/theory%20as%20liberatory%20prac.pdf https://savedbythe-bellhooks.tumblr.com Cover image by. James Keyser, 1992
In this episode, Eva tells Emma about the 1970's "Wages for Housework" movement, an international campaign calling for housework and care work to be compensated. They discuss the movement's radical grassroots origins, different feminist perspectives on the gendered division of labour, and the legacy of the movement in today's working and home life. Digressions include conversations about training squirrels and cleaning up roommate's beard hair. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network Reading List: Wendy Edmond, All Work and No Pay : women, housework, and the wages due Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother Louise Toupin, The History of Wages for Housework Gender difference in housework stats Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Women and the Subversion of the Community image: poster from the See Red Women's Workshop
This week, Eva and Emma get into an introduction to Postcolonial Feminism. They discuss the origins of postcolonial theory, examine how Western feminists frame so-called "third world" women and highlight the ways in which feminist rhetoric gets weaponized to perpetuate colonialism. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network Reading List: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Routledge's The post-colonial studies reader Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak” Sara Ahmed, excerpt from Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality Lila Abu‐Lughod, "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?" Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Rich, Janine, “"Saving" Muslim Women: Feminism, U.S Policy and the War on Terror” image: Leyly Matine-Daftary, PORTRAIT OF FARIDEH GOUHARI
In this episode, Emma tells Eva about the early roots of Ecofeminism and its strange, essentialist solutions to fighting patriarchy and capitalism. Side-tangents include Aristotle, The Giving Tree, and mind-body dualism. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network Support us on Patreon Reading List: General Overview of Ecofeminism by Laila Fariha Zein & Adib Rifqi Setiawan Feminist Environmental Philosophy, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2015 Edition) by Warren, Karen J., edited by Edward N. Zalta The Paradox of Gendering Nature by G. Brach Feminism, Western Culture, and The Body, in Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant Ecofeminism by Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies Women and Life on Earth records (WLOE) Climate Change and Gender Justice: International Policy and Legal Responses by Kameri-Mbote, Patricia Grassroots Activism: An Exploration of Women of Color's Role in the Environmental Justice Movement by Rainey, Shirley A., and Glenn S. Johnson The store of early ecofeminist action regarding the Love Canal neighbourhood built on a toxic dump site "Columbus thought the world was shaped like a titty" article Image described in opening Ecofeminism diagrams by Sarah Davis Cover image from The Minnesota Women's Press
Eva gets into Adrienne Rich's 1976 book "Of Woman Born" and talks about radical feminist approaches to motherhood. We discuss the narrow definition of Rich's "mother" figure, Black feminist responses to her concepts, and the Texas abortion ban. Plus, a rundown on the censored Judith Butler interview in the Guardian. *Content warning*: This episode contains discussion of abortion, infanticide, and mental health struggle. Cover image painting by Chantal Joffe, 2004 Reading List: Judith Butler Interview with Jules Gleeson https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-butler-interview-gender; The portion of the Interview that was deleted by The Guardian https://www.patreon.com/posts/55912898 Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich, 1976 https://archive.org/details/ofwomanbornmothe00rich/page/n7/mode/2up From Motherhood to Mothering: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, edited by Andrea O'Reilly, 2004 https://www.scribd.com/document/336903061/Andrea-O-Reilly-From-Motherhood-to-Mothering-Th-BookZZ-org The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships, Patricia Hill Collins, 1987 https://www.proquest.com/docview/1300131753?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties, Lauri Umansky, 1996 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Motherhood_Reconceived/_7IUCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
This week, Eva talks to Emma about the origins of the term “intersectionality”, how the definition has changed, and the importance of crediting and centring Black feminists. Plus-- a rant about the upcoming OnlyFans pornography ban. Reading List: Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color”: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2020/02/1229039.pdf Kimberle Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2020/02/1229039.pdf Alex Kirshner, for Slate: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/onlyfans-porn-ban-cruel.html&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1629763228495000&usg=AOvVaw0d-owS6fv4uSJO_8kHcAHm Tilly Lawless's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tilly_lawless/?hl=en Intersectionality Venn diagram/Wheel: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sylviaduckworth/50245846893 Jane Coaston, for Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination Crenshaw interview with Columbia Law School: https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality-more-two-decades-later Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp Photograph used in cover image by Miranda Barnes, https://www.mirandabarnes.com
In this episode, Emma provides an overview of second wave, radical feminism. What does it mean to be a radical feminist, and is this term still useful today? Listen to find out! Reading list: Nachescu, Voichita. “Radical Feminism and the Nation: History and Space in the Political Imagination of Second-Wave Feminism.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 3, no. 1, 2009, pp. 29–59. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41887617 Leigh Miller, A History of Radical Feminism https://www.sutori.com/story/a-history-of-radical-feminism–Pf5HsUfrBG26boQJdwtLbWUS Kathie Sarachild, Conciousness Raising Groups: A Radical Weapon, https://vrrws.seriousotters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Feminist-Revolution-Consciousness-Raising-A-Radical-Weapon-Kathie-Sarachild.pdf Carol Hanisch, The Personal is Political, https://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~mserra/AttachedFiles/PersonalPolitical.pdf Gillette, Meg. “Modern American Abortion Narratives and the Century of Silence.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 58, no. 4, 2012, pp. 663–687. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24247022 ***Trigger Warning: This article is explicit, and speaks about sexual violence*** Andrea Dworkin, Prostitution and Male Supremacy, http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MichLawJourI.html Erica West, The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism, https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/radical-feminism-second-wave-class Roz Kaveney, Woman Enough, https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2014/07/16/woman-enough Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, from the book Sister Outsider, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32951.Sister_Outsider Barry, Kathleen. “The Underground Economic System Of Pimping.” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 35, no. 1, 1981, pp. 117–127. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24357006 Barry, Kathleen. “Female Sexual Slavery: Understanding the International Dimensions of Women's Oppression.” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, 1981, pp. 44–52. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/761856 Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review, vol. 43, no. 6, 1991, pp. 1241–1299. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1229039. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
In this episode, Eva talks about the first birth control clinic in the US and the different tactics feminists of this time used to spread their message. Reading List: Ellen Chesler, Woman of valor: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America. https://archive.org/details/womanofvalormar000ches/page/n11/mode/2up Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography. https://archive.org/details/margaretsangerau1938sang/page/n1/mode/2up Jill Lepore, The secret history of Wonder Woman. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780804173407 Peter C Engelman, A history of the birth control movement in America. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780313365096 Emma Goldman. Marriage and love. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1914/marriage-love.htm
In this episode, Eva tells Emma about Neoliberal Feminism, or as we like to call it, the girlbossopocapopolous...or something like that. Eva uses the case of Sophia Amuroso's book #girlboss to discuss this type of feminism and it's limits. Reading List: Rachel Thwaites "Making a choice or taking a stand? Choice feminism, political engagement and the contemporary feminist movement." Feminist Theory 18.1 (2017) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700116683657 Eda Ulus "White fantasy, white betrayals: On neoliberal ‘feminism' in the US presidential election process." Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 18.1 (2018) https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/files/40108414/18_1ulus.pdf Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill, and Catherine Rottenberg "Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation." Feminist Theory 21.1 (2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1464700119842555
In this mini episode, Emma discusses the controversial topic of feminism's “waves”. Are these a helpful framing tool, or a reductive method of remembering history? Reading List: Laughlin, Kathleen A., et al. “Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor.” Feminist Formations, vol. 22, no. 1, 2010, pp. 76–135. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40835345. Accessed 14 July 2021. Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review, vol. 43, no. 6, 1991, pp. 1241–1299. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1229039. Accessed 14 July 2021. Spade, Dean, and Craig Willse. “Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014, pp. 5–29. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/qed.1.1.0005. Accessed 14 July 2021. DRISKILL, QWO-LI. “Stolen From Our Bodies: First Nations Two-Spirits/Queers and the Journey to a Sovereign Erotic.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, 2004, pp. 50–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20739500. Accessed 14 July 2021. Lorde, Audre. “‘THE MASTER'S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISMANTLE THE MASTER'S HOUSE.'” Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, edited by Reina Lewis and Sara Mills, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003, pp. 25–28. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcr9q0.5. Accessed 14 July 2021. Hooks, Bell. “Feminism and Militarism: A Comment.” Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3/4, 1995, pp. 58–64. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40003500. Accessed 14 July 2021.
In this Anti-Canada Day episode, Eva & Emma discuss famous Canadian ‘feminist' Emily Murphy. Murphy was known for her role in the passing of various laws related to women's rights in the early 20th century, such as the Dower Act and the Person's Case. She was also a fervent racist and eugenicist. Listen to her story in this week's episode. Content warning – this episode deals with some seriously disturbing content around eugenics, racism, ableism, and forced sterilization. Reading List: “Emily Murphy”- Library and Archives Canada “Why the Persons Case Matters”- Senate of Canada The Black Candle by Emily Murphy Emily Murphy by Susan Jackel Emily Murphy, The Eugenics Archive, by Sheila Gibbons Alberta Passes the Sexual Sterilization Act, The Eugenics Archive, by Luke Kersten Canadian History: Post-Confederation by John Douglas Belshaw Gordon, Todd. “Neoliberalism, Racism, and the War on Drugs in Canada.” Social Justice, vol. 33, no. 1 (103), 2006, pp. 59–78. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/29768352. Accessed 26 June 2021. Backhouse, Constance. “The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-Century Canada.” Law and History Review, vol. 14, no. 2, 1996, pp. 315–368. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/743786. Accessed 26 June 2021. Bonilla, Tabitha and Cecilia Mo. The Evolution Of Human Trafficking Messaging In The United States And Its Effect On Public Opinion, Journal of Public Policy, Volume 39, Issue 2 June 2019 , pp. 201-234. Cambridge University Press, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X18000107
In this week's episode, Eva and Emma discuss the roots, ethos, and heroes of Liberal Feminism. Reading List: Mary Wollstonecraft- A Vindication for the Rights of Women bell hooks- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Lucy Bailey- Liberal Feminism in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender & Sexuality Studies "GoArmy" Army recruitment video featured in this episode