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The Subtle Art of Messaging: How Far-Right Women Use Social Media to Shape Public Opinion Eviane Leidig (Mar 13, 2024)

“Using your baby to virtue signal alliance with a violent political movement is a new low for white women.” This is how a far-right woman influencer describes a photo of a woman holding her baby in a carrier at a...

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The Subtle Art of Messaging:

How Far-Right Women Use Social Media to Shape Public Opinion

Eviane Leidig

first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.

International Women’s Day: Remembering Mary C. McCall Jr. and the Unfinished Battle for Women’s Rights J. E. Smyth (Mar 8, 2024)

It’s International Women’s Day, and women’s rights are being rolled back all over the world, perhaps, mostly notably, in the country that hosted the first International Women’s Day in 1909—the United States. Globally, women still make less money per hour...

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International Women’s Day:

Remembering Mary C. McCall Jr. and the Unfinished Battle for Women’s Rights

J. E. Smyth

first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.

Wendy Steiner on The Beauty of Choice (Mar 1, 2024)

In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as...

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Wendy Steiner on The Beauty of Choice

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Lucy Diggs Slowe on Black Women, the Role of the University, and Democracy Amy Yeboah Quarkume (Feb 28, 2024)

Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in Black women’s higher education. Her story is one of resilience, activism, and relentless determination to overcome barriers. She defied societal limitations to become a pioneering educator...

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Lucy Diggs Slowe on Black Women, the Role of the University, and Democracy

Amy Yeboah Quarkume

first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.

Sandhya Shukla on Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place (Feb 26, 2024)

Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place, proposes an understanding of Harlem as a place where peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other—and cross the borders of ethnic and racial identities and community enclaves in the process....

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