The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
From Subjectivity to Recognition: Genderealogy and Paradigm Shift
The story of rupture is often told by innovative women.
Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft on “genderealogy”
Universal Mother
Kher promotes more fluid conceptions of genealogy, encouraging viewers to consider that ancestry goes beyond the markers of culture, race, and ethnicity.
Vaishnavi Patil on Bharti Kher’s Ancestor and imaging motherhood
What Were the Women Up To?
While Benjamin Lipscomb cannot be criticized for failing to say everything relevant on this history, it is worth noting that there may be a richer and longer history to be told here.
Nicholas Sparks reviews The Women Are Up to Something
The Extraordinary Marie Magdeleine Davy
Despite their imperfections, mystical texts are worth keeping alive in modernity—particularly in periods of authoritarianisms and violence—because they offer glimpses of other possibilities.
Brenna Moore on the life and work of a great figure of the Ressourcement
The Legacy of Margaret Sanger
It is interesting to imagine an alternative history, one where Sanger had received the support she sought from eugenicists. What would our feminist genealogies look like then?
G. Marie Aquilina examines Margaret Sanger’s place in feminist genealogy