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2020

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Amplification Of Structural Inequalities: Research Sabbaticals During Covid-19, Carrie N. Baker Dec 2020

Amplification Of Structural Inequalities: Research Sabbaticals During Covid-19, Carrie N. Baker

Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications

With the closing of schools and child care centers, the pandemic has significantly increased parents’ caregiving labor, especially mothers, who do much more caregiving than fathers. The pandemic is hitting communities of color particularly hard, placing a heavy burden of stress and caregiving responsibilities for ill family members on Black and Brown women. In this essay, I examine how the pandemic is influencing the ability of female faculty members to engage in research and writing during sabbaticals, with particular attention to the impact of parenthood status, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic background. I argue that the pandemic is amplifying pre-existing structural inequalities …

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Meridians Twentieth Anniversary Reader, Ginetta Candelario Dec 2020

Meridians Twentieth Anniversary Reader, Ginetta Candelario

Sociology: Faculty Books

This critical anthology consists of thirty of Meridians's most frequently cited, downloaded, and anthologized scholarly essays, activists reports, memoirs, and poems since its first issue was published in fall 2000. The forty authors featured are a virtual who's who of internationally renowned feminist women-of-color scholar-activists (such as Sara Ahmed, Angela Davis, Sonia Alvarez, Paula Giddings, and Sunera Thobani) and award-winning poets (such as Nikky Finney, Laurie Ann Guerrero, and Suheir Hammad). Ranging broadly across geographies (North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East), diasporas (Black, Asian, Indigenous), and disciplines, the collection beautifully exemplifies the best practices of …

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Meridians 19:2, Ginetta Candelario Oct 2020

Meridians 19:2, Ginetta Candelario

Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism

As I began writing this introduction, the Commonwealth of Virginia became the thirty-eighth state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a milestone arriving thirty-eight years after the 1982 deadline for its ratification....

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Abortion Regulation In The Age Of Covid-19, Carrie N. Baker Sep 2020

Abortion Regulation In The Age Of Covid-19, Carrie N. Baker

Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications

Both abortion advocates and opponents have used the COVID-19 crisis to further their policy goals.

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How Does Climate Change Uniquely Threaten Women?, Carrie N. Baker Apr 2020

How Does Climate Change Uniquely Threaten Women?, Carrie N. Baker

Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications

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Meridians 19:1, Ginetta Candelario Apr 2020

Meridians 19:1, Ginetta Candelario

Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism

This volume’s publication coincides with the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which Meridians readers likely know was the culmination of nearly a century of women’s organizing for political and civil rights....

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Community Characteristics, Victimization, And Psychological Adjustment Among School-Aged Adopted Children With Lesbian, Gay, And Heterosexual Parents, Abbie E. Goldberg, Randi L. Garcia Mar 2020

Community Characteristics, Victimization, And Psychological Adjustment Among School-Aged Adopted Children With Lesbian, Gay, And Heterosexual Parents, Abbie E. Goldberg, Randi L. Garcia

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Little research has examined victimization among school-aged children raised in lesbian/gay (LG) parent households and almost no work has attended to the school and community contexts that may impact their victimization risk. This study examined predictors of parent-reported child victimization and child adjustment, and parent responses to victimization, in 43 two-mother, 37 two-father, and 56 mother–father families, with adopted children (median age = 8.6 years). Predictors included parent (sexual orientation), school (climate, public versus private) and community (urbanicity, percentage voted Democrat) factors, with parent and child demographics included as controls. A total of 47% of parents reported one or more …

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Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies, Jina B. Kim, Sami Schalk Jan 2020

Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies, Jina B. Kim, Sami Schalk

English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications

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Gita And Betty: An Internationalist Love Story, Elisabeth Armstrong Jan 2020

Gita And Betty: An Internationalist Love Story, Elisabeth Armstrong

Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Books

"Gita and Betty: An Internationalist Love Story" is part of Faith in the Masses: a collection of 12 essays by historians and activist-scholars on various aspects of the 100-year history of the CPUSA. The essays in this book demonstrate the Communist Party, USA's century long commitment to equality, workers' rights, peace, and socialism. They highlight the struggle for African American equality, Black liberation, and women's rights, and place athletic, cultural, and literary activities well within the scope of CPUSA work. This book asserts that the CPUSA played a leading role in the social and economic justice struggles of the …

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Bridging The Expertise Of Advocates And Academics To Identify Reproductive Justice Learning Outcomes, Charisse M. Loder, Leah Minadeo, Laura Jimenez, Zakiya Luna, Loretta Ross, Nancy Rosenbloom, Caren M. Stalburg, Lisa H. Harris Jan 2020

Bridging The Expertise Of Advocates And Academics To Identify Reproductive Justice Learning Outcomes, Charisse M. Loder, Leah Minadeo, Laura Jimenez, Zakiya Luna, Loretta Ross, Nancy Rosenbloom, Caren M. Stalburg, Lisa H. Harris

Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications

Phenomenon: Reproductive justice (RJ) is defined by women of color advocates as the right to have children, not have children and parent children while maintaining reproductive autonomy. In the United States, physicians have been complicit in multiple historical reproductive injustices, involving coercive sterilization of thousands of people of color, low income, and disabilities. Currently, reproductive injustices continue to occur; however, physicians have no formal RJ medical education to address injustices. The objective of this study was to engage leading advocates within the movement using a Delphi method to identify critical components for such a curriculum. Approach: In 2016, we invited …

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Marxist And Socialist Feminism, Elisabeth Armstrong Jan 2020

Marxist And Socialist Feminism, Elisabeth Armstrong

Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications

Beginning in the 1840s, Marxism has analyzed unpaid, reproductive “women’s work” as an integral part of capitalism. Marxist feminism historicizes reproduction in relation to production to better understand women’s exploitation and oppression in capitalism. Marxist feminism also theorizes revolutionary subjectivity and possibilities for an anti-capitalist future. Particularly important to Marxist feminism are its theories of imperialism and primitive accumulation, or theft, of land, resources and women’s unpaid labor to the reproduction of lives and generations.

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Speaking Our Peace: Celebrating Twenty Years Of Women Of Color Feminist Transnational Knowledge Production In Meridians, Ginetta E. B. Candelario Jan 2020

Speaking Our Peace: Celebrating Twenty Years Of Women Of Color Feminist Transnational Knowledge Production In Meridians, Ginetta E. B. Candelario

Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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