Thinking Sex, Thinking Gender
In our fourth summer hiatus issue, we get down to some of our best stuff
Yes, we are still on hiatus at Public Seminar. But you? You are either on vacation, or putting together your fall syllabus! Here are a few pieces we are proud of that deserve a place in your semester. And we will see you soon with our first fall issue! Got an idea you would like to see in Public Seminar? Please pitch us!
Image credit: Le Lit, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1893). Courtesy of Public Domain Review
August 19, 2021
Politics
Marc Stein, “When a Boycott Blocks Queer Research: California LGBT legislators convinced their colleagues to prohibit spending public funds in states with anti-LGBT laws—and created roadblocks for researchers who could help solve the problem.” (May 18, 2021)
Annelise Orleck, “When Welfare Was a Route to Community Empowerment in Las Vegas:In 1971, Black women workers seized control of their own destiny—and won.” (April 1, 2021)
Culture
Benjamin Bernard, “What the “Gender Reveal” Reveals: And what the party that caused California’s El Dorado fire was really all about.” (September 10, 2020)
Nadia Y. Kim, “What America Teaches White Men About Asian American Women: The Atlanta killings have all the hallmarks of a hate crime.” (March 25, 2021)
Memory
Cassandra Seltman and Danielle Knafo, “Sex with Robots: Digisexuality and the disavowal of the human.” (September 3, 2020)
Marc Hertzman and Giovana Xavier, “Let’s Build a Monument to Anastácia: An enslaved woman’s image that has traveled around the hemisphere can help us rethink slavery and memorialization.” (July 30, 2020)
Classics Reconsidered
Sandrine Berges, “How Should We Commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft? Why the current controversy is curiously appropriate.” (November 19, 2020)
Books
Martha S. Jones and Claire Potter, “How Black Women Fight for Our Democracy: A conversation about Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.” (January 17, 2021)
McKenzie Wark, “Cis Lit and the Trans Writer: On Torrey Peters and the possibilities for trans girl fiction.” (January 12, 2021)
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