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The Scholar & Feminist Online, the Web Journal of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Devotes Its Newest Issue to "Young Feminists Take on the Family"
The Scholar & Feminist Online, the web journal of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, devotes its newest issue to "Young Feminists Take on the Family." Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (authors of *ManifestA: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future*) are the guest editors. The issue includes essays, poetry, and art by women in their 20s and 30s who explore a range of issues on young feminists' minds as they contemplate their own families and grapple with society's still-limiting notion of what "a family" can be.
First launched in January of 2003, S&F Online provides public access
to the Barnard Center for Research on Women's most innovative
programming through transcripts and audio and video recordings of forums, discussions and lectures, and links to intellectual and social action networks. The journal builds on its programs by publishing related scholarship and other resources.
The latest issue includes original work by Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier (co-editors of Catching A Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century), Ayun Halliday (BUST magazine columnist and sole staff member of the zine East Village Inky), Lisa Johnson (editor of Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire), and writers Laura Coates, Heather Hewett, and Anastasia Higginbotham. Also, the issue features two transcripts from the Barnard Center for Research on
Women's "Feminist Future Series," a photo gallery, an extended reading list for those who wish to explore these topics further, and a portal to activism created by Jessica Valenti, called "Take Action!"
The Barnard Center for Research on Women, founded in 1971, is one of the first feminist research institutes and home to the nationally recognized Scholar & the Feminist Conference. In the 1980s, two much-celebrated anthologies, The Future of Difference (1981) and Pleasure and Danger (1982), were based on this conference. S&F Online continues the transformation of this groundbreaking conference into the digital age. Click here to read the journal. |
