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...first book, Gynesis: Configurations of Women and Modernity, published in 1985, is part of the canon of post-structuralist feminist theory—a strain of theory that treats gender as a largely social construct imposed on biological differences. “I became fascinated by this group of people who seemed to be trying to understand the post-war world,” Jardine says...
Gynesis was so monumental in part because the people about whom Jardine was writing—Julia Kristeva, Simone de Beauvoir and other prominent feminist thinkers—were Jardine’s peers during her years doing graduate work in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship...
brin likes to push boundaries. She invigorated Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department, with an unorthodox approach to film and strong feminist perspective. In the film industry, she is known for up-to-the-moment work that toes the line between fiction and documentary. “I’ve kind of straddled the film and the art world,” Subrin says...
...addition to her own projects, Subrin has collaborated with feminist art-pop musical group Le Tigre on music videos...
...Renowned feminist political theorist Susan M. Okin died last Wednesday, March 3, in her Lincoln, Mass., home...