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By Patricia Miller The best part working on my book Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church was learning about the “foremothers” of the Catholic reproductive rights movement. Some of these women, like Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Daly, are well known. Others less so. One of these women, Elizabeth “Betty” Farians […]
Call for Applications: Fellowships for Threatened Scholars Organization: Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund Deadline: 1 August 2014 (N.B. Applications can be taken at any time in cases of emergency) Official Posting (via http://www.awid.org/Get-Involved/Calls-for-Participation2/Fellowships-for-Threatened-Scholars-Call-for-Applications-Summer-2014): The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) announces an August 1 deadline for its next round of applications from […]
Since a German regional court in Cologne ruled in the summer of 2012 that the circumcision of a Muslim boy constituted “grievous bodily harm,” a movement was born that calls on governments across Europe to legislatively protect “genital autonomy.” The European debate is characterized by the fact that, unlike in the U.S., the majority of […]
Call for Papers, Poetry, and Prose: WSQ Special Issue, Fall 2015: The 1970’s. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 August 2014. Deadline for Final Essays: 2 October 2014. Guest Editors: Shelly Eversley and Michelle Habell-Pallán. Official Posting (http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=214568): The 1970s was a revolutionary moment for women. It transformed the very notion of female power regarding their bodies, their […]
By Claire Miller Skriletz Last year I was fortunate enough to present a paper on The Book of Margery Kempe at a local conference. The version of the paper I presented focused on the gendered roles Margery’s contemporaries attempted to assign to her, her resistance or reconfiguration of those roles, and how her self-defined roles […]
In the past, I’ve shared my thoughts about celebrating Mother’s Day. Today, I find myself considering very similar gender based issues on Father’s Day. In a single thought, I’m not a fan of Hallmark Holidays that reinforce gender divisions. Instead, I hope we can use these moments to reflect more deeply on the moral act […]
How fitting that we gather here at Grailville, the center that Janet Kalven helped to found, in this lovely barn turned Oratory on the land that Janet Kalven loved. As was evident in the “Circle of Remembrance,” we come not to mourn a tragedy, but to rejoice in the goodness of a life well lived. […]
When I was a Ph.D. candidate almost twenty years ago, I had big dreams. I had dreams that I would write great books. I would write lots of them. I dreamed about collaborating on some books with senior scholars, editing textbooks and having a wonderful life making a difference with my books. I even dreamed […]
In the present day of social media and blogging, many are now turning to the internet to share thoughts, concepts and more importantly ideas that matter to them most. The Feminist Studies in Religion Blog (FSR Blog) has been a place for regular contributors to share thoughts on various aspects of how feminist studies in religion […]
Fashion magazines annoy me when they try to tell us who is beautiful and who is not. The advertisements, glamorous fashion runway shots, and girls featured on the cover of fashion magazine all try to convey the standards of beauty that their customers need to follow. Some of these standards are Western, unattainable by the […]