On Being a Monster
Essays on Gender, Culture, and Power, 1990-2025
On Being a Monster
Essays on Gender, Culture, and Power, 1990-2025
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Selected from Catharine R. Stimpson's storied career as a public intellectual, these essays distill the ideas and values that enable individuals and societies to thrive.
Stimpson is a legend in the fields of women and gender studies, a pioneer of 20th-century feminist thought and activism, and founding editor of the most prestigious journal in the field of women's studies, Signs. This essay collection brings together new work alongside published articles and public lectures, all of which provide crucial insights about the most pressing issues of our time, including civil rights, academic freedom, and gender politics.
In her opening essay, Stimpson reflects on the fear of being a monster – primarily, but not only, as a monster of gender rebellion – and on the ways that embracing her monstrosity has become an abiding strength. This strength fuels her writing about the health of democratic societies and the essential role that literature and culture play in creating a healthy society. Why do societies thrive with the freedoms of both thought and speech? What is a good education and does it need diversity? Why are feminist insights into sex and gender so vital?
As a scholar, an activist, and a self-described “skeptical Utopianist,” Stimpson takes a long view of the issues and problems that continue to shape our modern world. On Being a Monster explores these complicated issues in accessible prose, marked by clarity, wit, compassion – and a surprising optimism.
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Table of Contents
Prelude: On Being A Monster, New York Institute for the Humanities (2018)
Part 1. The Self in the World
1. Dirty Minds, Dirty Bodies, Clean Speech (2000)
2. Marry, Marry Quite Contrary (2004)
3. Do These Deaths Surpass Understanding? The Literary Figure of the Mother Who Murders (2005)
Part 2. Gender in the World
4. What Am I Doing When I Do Women's Studies in 1990? (1990)
5. Reading For Love: Canons, Paracanons, and Whistling Jo March (1990)
6. Who's Transgressing Now? Some Comments on Gay and Lesbian Literature (1996)
7. Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX (2022)
Part 3. The University in the World
8. Myths of Transformation: Realities of Change (2000)
9. Bathing in Reeking Wounds: The Liberal Arts, Beauty, and War (2014)
10. What is Academic Freedom? Perspectives from New York and Abu Dhabi (2018)
11. Viktor Orbán Comes to America (2024)
12. Father's Days, Mother's Daze (2025)
Coda: Coming Home (2018)
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Product details
| Published | 04 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216389156 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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