Alison Piepmeier returns from NWSA’s annual conference to reveal what’s hot in feminist books and scholarship, the joy of gender-neutral bathrooms, and what it’s like to work out next to Angela Davis at the gym.



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Andrea Smith was one of the keynote speakers last night at the National Women's Studies Association Conference, and jeez, was she amazing. In a way, I'm glad she doesn't teach at the College of Charleston, because she's so dynamic, smart, compelling, and energetic--and seems so much like a person I'd love to hang out with--that I fear she'd throw off my whole vibe, my… Continue

In honor of the She Writes campaign to buy books by women, I thought I'd share some books by women I bought today at the National Women's Studies Association book exhibit:

Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of "Perfect" Babies, by Gail Heidi Landsman

Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and Hype, by Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin…

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I'm in Atlanta at the National Women's Studies Association Conference. The conference officially got started last night with a keynote address by Angela Davis, who is one of the most important feminist activists of the last forty years, and always an inspiring speaker. She discussed the changes that the NWSA has gone through in recent years, changes that are making it a more inclusive and rigorous academic organization, and she also discussed… Continue