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lareviewofbooks.org > article > angela-mcrobbie-feminism-young-women-cultural-studies-girlhood

Reading (and Shopping) with Angela McRobbie

2+ hour, 14+ min ago  (194+ words) Perhaps that interrogation of everyday life is the thrust of cultural studies, bringing us "back to the home, the family, the bedroom, the church, the school, as well as the performance space." The first few of these are spaces defined…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > an-active-project-of-exclusion

An Active Project of Exclusion

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (186+ words) Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men by Patricia Owens. Princeton University Press, 2025. 432 pages. Geertje Bol is a postdoctoral researcher in political theory at Ghent University and works on early modern women's political thought. Jan Eijking is a junior…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > never-a-patient-woman

Never a Patient Woman

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (311+ words) This essay is a preview of the LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission. Become a member for more fiction, essays, criticism, poetry, and art from this issue'plus the next four issues of the Quarterly in print. TWO RADICAL FEMINISTS turned perennial mental…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > trans-women-in-the-heartland

Trans Women in the Heartland

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (564+ words) Woodworking by Emily St. James. Crooked Media Reads, 2025. 368 pages. Erica, one of the two main characters, is known to her students as Mr. Skyberg. The first sentence in the book reads, "Erica didn't know any other trans women." This compelling…...

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lareviewofbooks.org > article > the-transversal-spirit-of-the-feminist-strike

The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (211+ words) For me and for so many others," Gago added, growing up with the Madres de Plaza de Mayo as a reference gave me a way of thinking about what it means to do politics that I would call profoundly feminist....