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Why did the governor of North Carolina, Pat McCrory, single out gender studies when he argued that a public college education should lead graduating students to a paying job, really to “how many of those butts can get jobs”? In this context, he also exclaimed: “If you want to take gender studies that’s fine, go […]
FiR is pleased to present the following call for papers for a special issue on religion, disability and the environment (Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology; fall 2014). If interested, please consult the official posting and contact information below. Call for Papers: Special Issue on Religion, Disability and the Environment, Fall 2014 Worldviews: Global Religions, […]
I’ve been thinking about and living through significant change these last few months. I prefer to think of it more as “transition” because change always seems to be such a mammoth undertaking. Change signals, for me, a willingness to pull up roots, move on to the largely unknown, try not to stumble in the process, […]
The Society for Educating Women (SEW) has extended its invitation for papers for its 6th annual conference. The extended deadline is April 15, 2013. Location and Date: 26-28 July 2013, St. Louis, MO (Marriott Renaissance Grand Hotel). Conference Theme: Resisting Amnesia and creating community: Educating women in Thought, Art, & Action. For Call details and updates please […]
Apparently women in religion have not really made much of a difference in shaping the history of the United States. At least not according to the much-touted PBS special MAKERS: Women Who Make America that premiered in February 2013 with scant coverage of our crowd. Perhaps it is churlish to criticize a major project about […]
I always straddle a line in presidential elections. Voting democrat usually feels like endorsing a failed, corrupt two-party system. So I’ve voted Green Party more than once. But I never did it when I lived in a swing state and knew the election would be close. I abhor Obama’s complicity in the killing of innocents […]
Guest Blog written by Sylvia Macros, Director of the Center for Psychoethnological Research in Cuernavaca, Mexico and International Board member of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. At the XIV ALER International Congress on the History of Religions in Latin America, those participating in the panel to honor Dr. Ada María Isasi-Díaz had all known […]
The 11th Annual International Conference of the Institut des Amériques (IDA), 4-6 December, 2013, invites proposals for papers on the theme of “Women in the Americas.” Official Posted Information: A generation of scholars in the humanities and social sciences have paid considerable attention to gender- and women-related issues. This more comprehensive framework, constructing […]
Patriarchy will get unimaginable amounts of free publicity for the next month as the Roman Catholic Church reshuffles the papal deck. Media commentators will fawn over the proceedings triggered by the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Unrivaled displays of kyriarchy will be beamed into our homes as reporters explain piously the ancient rituals of […]
Some people are born to write. Their words seem to flow out of their minds and land so beautifully on their laptop screens. They seem to write effortlessly with their words artistically captured and perfectly written on the pages their printers produce. Their ideas seem magically to appear, profoundly laid out before their eyes. For […]