Annabel Barry is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. Her current research focuses on Irish literature, feminism, and philosophy of language. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Post45: Contemporaries, the Los Angeles Review of Books, English Literary History, Milton Studies, and qui parle, where she is co-editor-in-chief.
Annabel Barry
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Writing on Public Books
The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict
Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college classroom, while the Florida state government took over a public college and abolished its gender studies program. At the federal level, words including “gender” and “women” are […]
Women’s Land and Language: Huntington, Vermont
In the physical space of HOWL, a feminist and separatist living community, discussion of feminist ideas takes on urgency when confronted with the immediate practicalities of daily living.
