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Selected article January 2008
Angela Davis speaking at the University of Alberta,
March 28,
2006
Angela Yvonne Davis (born
January 26,
1944 in
Birmingham, Alabama) is an
American socialist organizer and
professor who was associated with the
Black Panther Party (BPP) and the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association, however, was her membership in the
Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of
Judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, and was the subject of an intense
manhunt. She was eventually captured, arrested, tried, and then acquitted in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. She is currently Professor of
History of Consciousness at the
University of California and Presidential Chair at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. She works for racial and gender equality and for
prison abolition. Davis is a founder of the anti-prison
grassroots organization
Critical Resistance.
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Selected article February 2008
Judith Butler (born
February 24,
1956) is an
American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of
feminism,
queer theory,
political philosophy, and
ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of
Rhetoric and
Comparative Literature at the
University of California, Berkeley.
Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, and her dissertation was subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s, between different teaching/research appointments (such as at the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University), she was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism. Her most recent work focuses on Jewish philosophy, engaging in particular with "pre-Zionist criticisms of state violence."[1][2]
Her major works include: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993), Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997), Undoing Gender (2004) and Giving an Account of Oneself (2005). Read more...
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Selected article March 2008
Julia Kristeva (
Bulgarian:
Юлия Кръстева) is a
Bulgarian-
French philosopher,
literary critic,
psychoanalyst,
feminist, and, most recently,
novelist, who has lived in
France since the mid-
1960s. She was born in
Sliven, Bulgaria, and moved to
France in December 1966, when she was 25.
Kristeva has become influential within international critical analysis, cultural theory and feminism after publishing her first book Semeiotikè in 1969. Her immense body of work includes books, essays and preface publications of architectural importance, which include the notions of intertextuality, the semiotic, and abjection, for the fields of linguistics, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, biography and autobiography, political and cultural analysis, art and art history. Together with Roland Barthes, Tzvetan Todorov, Lucien Goldmann, Gérard Genette, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan, Algirdas Greimas, Michel Foucault, and Louis Althusser, she stands as one of the foremost structuralists, in that time when structuralism took major place in humanities. Her works also have an important place in post-structuralist thought. Read more...
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Selected article June 2008
Riot grrrl (or riot grrl) is an underground feminist
punk movement that started in the 1990s and is often associated with third-wave feminism (it is sometimes seen as its starting point). It was grounded in the
DIY philosophy of
punk values, riot grrls took an
anti-corporate stance of
self-sufficiency and
self-reliance. Riot grrrl's emphasis on universal female identity and separatism often appears more closely allied with second-wave feminism than with the third wave. Riot grrrl bands often address issues such as rape, domestic abuse, sexuality, and female empowerment. Some bands associated with the movement are:
Bikini Kill,
Bratmobile,
Excuse 17,
Free Kitten, Heavens To Betsy,
Huggy Bear,
L7, and
Team Dresch. In addition to a music scene, riot grrrl is also a
subculture;
zines, the
DIY ethic, art, political action, and activism are part of the movement. Riot grrrls hold meetings, start chapters, and support and organize women in music. The term "Riot Grrl" uses a "growling" double or triple r, placing it in the word
girl as an apropriation of the derogatory use of the term.
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