Batya Weinbaum

Books

Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities, Femspec Books
Series: Femspec Books. Price: $60.00 USD. Words: 109,530. Language: English. Published: October 9, 2017 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Mythology, folklore, & legend, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
An ethnohistoric study of women and islands, this book covers the Amazons and their varied histories.
Teaching Joanna Russ’s Consciousness-Raising Novels of the 70s: Three Decades Later by Batya Weinbaum, Femspec Issue 16.1
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 8,010. Language: English. Published: November 20, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Batya Weinbaum describes her experience with teaching the Joanna Russ' The Female Man and We Who Are About To… to students three decades after publication.
Memoirs of an Academic Career Femspec v. 8.1-2
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 4,220. Language: English. Published: July 2, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Essay » Sociology, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
An expose of the deeply troubling conduct toward women of the academic institutions as they exist in America. Here is an account of the damaging effects to one woman's academic career.
The First FEMSPEC Salon: NWSA Albuquerque, Femspec Issue 1.2
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 820. Language: English. Published: April 21, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Essay » Literature
This is a review of a meeting that took place during a conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People from across the country gathered to discuss the progress of the FEMSPEC journal and how they became interested in working on it. Ideas for future editions were also discussed.
Sex Role Reversals in Star Trek's Planets of Women as Indices of Second Wave Media Protest, Femspec Issue 1.1
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 8,430. Language: English. Published: April 14, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
The critique made is that popular shows on television are reactionary products of a culture that treats women as sex objects. The episodes of Star Trek critiqued in the journal are about how the feminist movement coincided with the sexist illustration of women in the television. Watching these Star Trek episodes will reveal how icons of American culture can express popular American ideologies.
Birthing in a Hotel Room in San Antonio, Femspec Issue 1.1
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 3,550. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
This brief introduction to the journal explains why the women writers and critics felt a need to begin an interdisciplinary journal. One reason for this need to create the journal was a common feeling of being alienated as writers in male-dominated publishing circles.
Rats, Stones and the Goddess : A Conversation with Sabine Lichtenfels, Femspec Issue 9.1
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 6,890. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Activism, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
Batya Weinbaum interviewed Sabine Lichtenfels in July, 2005 when invited to participate in the seminar for Peace Journalists at Tamera. Tamera is an international intentional community in Southern Portugal. They openly maintain free love lifestyle to free up energy to liberate and change an oppressive society, along the lines of New Left thinkers influenced by Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich.
The Amusement Women Femspec v. 12.2
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $10.00 USD. Words: 9,280. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Sharon had discovered the encampment of women and children living under the cardboard packing boxes quite by accident one day when she had stepped into a booth in the hallway of the mall marked “DIAL A BREAST.” Just what had she discovered? Sharon's life was about to change but she didn't know that yet.