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By Katherine Dugan. Unplanned: What She Saw Changed Everything is the newest pro-life film to hit mainstream movie theaters. Released in late March 2019, Unplanned follows the young adulthood of Abby Johnson. Abby is depicted as a bright-eyed woman who wants to, as she puts it, “do good in the world.” Based on her memoir, […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Christy Cobb (JFSR) has published Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). N.B. If you are an FSR Board member […]
By Kecia Ali. No manthology is an island, Entire of itself, Every manthology is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a contents list be woman-free, Our field is the less. As well as if a conference were. As well as if a panel of thy friend’s Or of thine own […]
By Susannah Heschel. In childhood, this was my learned experience: not that I am a female, but that I am not a male. Maleness was not just about boys and men, but about a domain of life and I was to stand at its periphery. This awareness began when I was quite little – perhaps […]
By Sarah Imhoff. Manthologies are a network problem. I’m not talking about some technical connectivity issue; I’m talking about networks of humans. Who knows whom, how and why, and how they are connected. Anthologies full of the work of male scholars are not a problem solely because of networks, but thinking about the networking aspect […]
By Alison L. Joseph. It has taken me months to build up the courage to write this post about my personal contribution to the preservation of gender imbalance. But here’s the truth, even for a person who is committed to gender parity, achieving an ideal is very challenging. You might stop reading right now and […]
By Michal Raucher. Recently I opened my email to find an alert from an academic listserv about a book titled, Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics, edited by Shmuly Yanklowitz. As an active member of the Society of Jewish Ethics and an associate editor of the Journal of Jewish Ethics, I eagerly scrolled down to read […]
By Mara Benjamin. man·thol·o·gy · noun · /manˈTHäləjē/: 1. A collection of writings by different authors, the vast majority of whom are men. 2. a popular form of scholarly production, produced by an intellectually myopic volume editor, an insufficiently critical publishing house editor, and the passive complicity of contributors. When I was asked to write […]
This should come as news to no one, but academe has a gender problem. Despite the fact that half or even more than half of doctoral degrees are awarded to women in the US, and even fewer awarded to women of color, female PhDs are still underrepresented in many fields. Additionally, women hold fewer (though […]
By Sara Ronis. Though Hollywood movies often portray teaching as the solitary work of (usually) male geniuses,[1] teaching is a collaborative project. It is collaborative within departments and schools, and across the wider world available through the internet. Emily O. Gravett and Lindsay Bernhagen have noted that collaboration is a “defining feature of feminist practice.” […]