Minou Arjomand is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Minou Arjomand
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Acts of Mothering
Back in 1976, Adrienne Rich described what she called the “institution of motherhood.” When biological motherhood was turned into a social and historical institution, she explained, the potential reproductive power of women was brought under men’s control.1 Three decades after Rich’s analysis, it remains so. Every day brings new reports of violence carried out in […]
Virtual Roundtable on “Fifty Shades of Grey”
With over 29 million copies sold in trade paperback alone and translations afoot in languages from Arabic to Tagalog, the Fifty Shades trilogy …
