Think Again: Dr. Julia Smith on Feminism

Feminism: What is it? What does the word mean?

We ask those questions with today's guest, New Mexico State University Professor, Dr. Julia Smith, whose fields include Gender and Sexuality Studies and Feminist Methodologies. Her thoughtful observations touch on a few of the many nuanced aspects of what is considered "Feminism" and "Feminist". She helps us begin to explore the meaning and influence of feminism in our culture, what it means to be a feminist, and offers some reading suggestions for further study.

For further exploration

bell hooks - Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Anne Fausto-Sterling: Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men

Kyla Schuller - The Trouble With White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Kyla Schuller - The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the 19th Century

Joann Meyerowitz - How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States

Gail Bederman - Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the US, 1880-1917

Merlin Stone - When God Was a Woman