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Feminist Studies Dept.
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Welcome to Feminist Studies at UCSC! Feminist studies is an interdisciplinary field of analysis that investigates how relations of gender are embedded in social, political, and cultural formations. The undergraduate program in Feminist Studies provides students with a unique interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. The department emphasizes theories and practices derived from multiracial and multicultural contexts. With over 180 students declared as majors, UCSC
is home
to one of the oldest and largest departments focused on gender
and sexuality studies in the U.S. Since its founding
Prof. Aptheker's recently-published memoir... Intimate Politics:
is on sale now at most major retail outlets and many independent booksellers. At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her
family's politics play out in countless living rooms across the country
when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker,
testified on television in front of the House on Un-American Activities
Committee in 1953. Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist
families whose friends included W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn, Bettina lived her parents' politics witnessing first-hand
during one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also
lived with a terrible secret: childhood sexual abuse and a frightening
and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions. Intimate Politics: A distinguished panel of nationally known scholar-activists participated in a roundtable panel at UCSC in February to discuss feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker's new memoir Intimate Politics, focusing on issues of social justice, race, and gender. Pictured outside UCSC's new Humanities Lecture Hall, from left to right: Bettina Aptheker, Ericka Huggins, Angela Davis, Blanche Wiesen Cook, and Johnnetta B. Cole. Click here for more information about the panelists and to hear a podcast of the event. [in order to launch the podcast, you will need iTunes, available here for download].
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