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The Feminist Theory Papers

Established by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, in partnership with the Brown University Library, the collection is actively acquiring the papers of prominent scholars. Many scholars have signed letters of intent to donate their papers in the future. Click here to see the program from the February 5, 2010 dedication. The following scholars already have papers in the collection or have signed letters of intent to donate their papers in the future:

Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Linda Martin Alcoff, Hunter College - City University of New York
Emily Apter, New York University
Frances Bartkowski, Rutgers University
Sandra Lee Bartky, University of Illinois-Chicago
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University
Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky
Rachel Bowlby, University College London
Teresa Brennan,(1952-2003)
Karen Brodkin, University of California-Los Angeles
Wendy L. Brown, University of California-Berkeley
Judith Butler, University of California-Berkeley
Hazel V. Carby, Yale University
Elizabeth A. Castelli, Barnard College, Columbia University
Anne Anlin Cheng, Princeton University
Joan Copjec, SUNY - Buffalo
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Cowie, Rutherford College, University of Kent
Joan E. DeJean, University of Pennsylvania
Penelope L. Deutscher, Northwestern University
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
Janice L. Doane, Saint Mary’s College-California
Mary Ann Doane, Brown University
Ann duCille, Wesleyan University
Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
Yasmine Ergas, Columbia University
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University
Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University
Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California-Davis
Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Judith Kegan Gardiner, University of Illinois-Chicago
Shahla Haeri, Boston University
Sandra Harding, University of California-Los Angeles
Nancy C.M. Hartsock, University of Washington
Mae G. Henderson, University of North Carolina
Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University
Jean E. Howard, Columbia University
Lynne R. Huffer, Emory University
Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado-Boulder
Alice A. Jardine, Harvard University
Claire Kahane, SUNY-Buffalo, emeritus
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University
Cora Kaplan, Queen Mary College, University of London
Vicki Kirby, University of New South Wales
Dorothy Yin-Ye Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University
K. Dian Kriz, Brown University
Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico
Joan B. Landes, Pennsylvania State University
Marnia Lazreg, Hunter College
Saba Mahmood, University of California-Berkeley
Elaine Marks (1930-2001)
Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia
Nancy K. Miller, City University of New York
Tania Modleski, University of Southern California
Henrietta L. Moore, Centre for the Study of Global Governance
Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster
Karen Newman, New York University
Linda Nicholson, Washington University
Felicity A. Nussbaum, University of California-Los Angeles
Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University
Mary Poovey, New York University
Denise Riley, University of East Anglia
Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Avital Ronell, New York University
Ellen Rooney, Brown University
Jacqueline Rose, Queen Mary University of London
Renata Salecl, Central European University
Chela Sandoval, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sylvia Schafer, University of Connecticut
Mira Schor, Parsons School of Design
Naomi Schor (1943-2001)
Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
Jenny Sharpe, University of California-Los Angeles
Elaine Showalter, Princeton University, emerita
Barbara H. Smith, Brown University and Duke University
Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University
Ann Laura Stoler, New School for Social Research
Jennifer Terry, University of California-Irvine
Barrie Thorne, University of California-Berkeley
Louise A. Tilly, New School for Social Research, emerita
Leti Volpp, Berkeley Law University of California
Judith R. Walkowitz, The Johns Hopkins University
Kay B. Warren, Brown University
Elizabeth Weed, Brown University
Kari Weil, Wesleyan University
Laura Wexler, Yale University
Mimi White, Northwestern University
Linda Williams, University of California-Berkeley
Elizabeth A. Wilson, Emory University
Linda M.G. Zerilli, University of Chicago
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, SUNY - Buffalo

Scholars with papers already in the Feminist Theory Papers collection at Brown University (for further information click here):

Teresa Brennan

The late Teresa Brennan was Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. Her books include: The Transmission of Affect, Exhausting Modernity: Ground for a New Modernity, and The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity.

In process – finding aid will be available soon.

Karen Brodkin

Karen Brodkin is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California-Los Angeles. Brodkin is the author of Making Democracy Matter: Identity and Activism in Los Angeles, How Jews Became White Folks And What That Says About Race In America (Honorable Mention, 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award), Caring By The Hour: Women, Work And Organizing At Duke Medical Center (Conrad Arensberg Award, Society for the Anthropology of Work), and Sisters And Wives: The Past And Future Of Sexual Equality.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling

Anne Fausto-Sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University and holds the Nancy Duke Lewis Chair. She is the author of Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, and Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.

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Nancy C.M. Hartsock

Nancy Hartsock is professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. Her books include Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism, The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, and Building Feminist Theory (co-editor).

In process – finding aid will be available soon.

 

Elaine Marks

The late Elaine Marks was the Germaine Brée Professor of French and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition to her groundbreaking anthology New French Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), co-edited with Isabelle de Courtivron, Marks authored several important books including: Colette; Encounters with Death: An Essay on the Sensibility of Simone de Beauvoir; and Marrano as Metaphor: The Jewish Presence in French Writing.

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Naomi Schor

The late Naomi Schor was the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French at Yale University. A founding co-editor of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Schor authored five books: Zola’s Crowds; Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction; Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine; George Sand and Idealism; and Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular.

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Louise A. Tilly

Louise A. Tilly retired as Michael E. Gellert Professor of History and Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of nine books and fifty scholarly articles including Politics and Class in Milan, 1881–1901. She co-authored Women, Work and Family with Joan Wallach Scott.

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The Pembroke Center is actively expanding the Feminist Theory Papers collection, which is housed at the John Hay Library. Inquiries regarding donating items or accessing to the Archives should be directed to Amy Greer.

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The Feminist Theory Papers is an exceptional archival collection representing scholars who have transformed their disciplines and the intellectual landscape of universities in the United States and internationally. This focused and coherent manuscript collection is indispensable to historians, cultural critics, and theorists.

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