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Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic (2021) The #MeToo mo... more Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic (2021)
The #MeToo movement, created by activist Tarana Burke as a grassroots campaign ten years before it took off on social media, has unleashed a flood of pop culture books on misogyny, rape, rape culture, and sexual assault. Yet to date, no major work considers how the #MeToo movement might enrich our critical and pedagogical literary practices, or how literary and cultural studies might help feminist scholars better understand and marshal the powerful energies of #MeToo.
This volume aims to ignite a conversation about literature, culture, and sexual violence by gathering essays that bring these areas of inquiry and activism to bear on one other.
Refereed Journal Articles by Heather Hewett
Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice, 2016
This article interrogates the ways in which the ideas of diversity, experience, and inclusion bec... more This article interrogates the ways in which the ideas of diversity, experience, and inclusion became central to the introductory Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) course at one institution and the way that various stakeholders define and interpret these terms. After providing a short local history and analyzing current and former instructors' understandings of these concepts as they function in the GWS introductory classroom, the authors further explore these themes with two case studies: transgender inclusion and Native American feminisms.
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 2006
This article examines how activists, advocacy groups, and writers are positioning the emerging mo... more This article examines how activists, advocacy groups, and writers are positioning the emerging mothers'movement vis-a-vis feminism. Iexplorethe negotiations andselfnaming strategies of various mothers' advocacy groups and how they reveal both ambivalence and allegiance towardferninism, arguing that we should understand the mothers'movement within thebroader-ame offeminism, andspec$cally within the context of the third wave and the ongoing project of redejining and expanding feminism. Moreover, I argue that it may benefit mothers' advocates t o engage more fully with feminist theories andpractice. Feministfiameworkc can he& t o suggest possibilities for increased interchange and alliance-building across the boundaries of d@erence---work that, I believe, remains@ndamental to the formation ofa truly inclusive mothers' and caregivers' movement.
MELUS, 2006
In October of 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered his troops to massacre as many as ... more In October of 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered his troops to massacre as many as 15,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. 1 The attack came as a complete surprise to these Haitians, as well as to many Dominicans; no prior event had warned them of what was about to take place. The killings were swift and particularly brutal. 2 Trujillo ordered his soldiers to use machetes and other crude weapons instead of guns, a brutality captured by the name of the massacre: in Spanish, El Corte, the cutting, and in Haitian Krèyol, kout kouto, the stabbing. 3 Those who survived lived with permanent injuries, scars, and impairments as well as the psychological trauma of having experienced a massacre.
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The Scholar and Feminist Online, 2004
Edited Book Chapters by Heather Hewett
Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies, Vol. 2, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence, 2023
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, 2021
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, 2019
This chapter examines English-language life narrative written by those who are positioned in the ... more This chapter examines English-language life narrative written by those who are positioned in the social location of “mother” and whose writing reflects their engagement with the work of mothering. Because the history of both motherhood memoirs and those who would write about their experience as mothers is marked by exclusion and oppression, many scholars define maternal autobiography broadly. Motherhood memoirs in their current form began to be published in the later 20th century, and the subgenre expanded significantly in the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Feminist scholarship on the form has frequently explored topics related to the workings of narrative and the formation of maternal subjectivity. Debates center on whether the form remains complicit with, or critical of, heteronormative gender formation; why the majority of its authors reflect privileged identities, and to what extent this is changing; and how maternal autobiographical subjects are produced through the act of writing about mothering. Motherhood memoirs continue to change, providing a valuable window onto the shifting landscapes of contemporary parenting and family life and inviting us to imagine new possibilities and ways of forming family and raising the next generation.
Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives, 2016
Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies , 2015
The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo, 2015
Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, 2014
What Do Mothers Need? Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak Out on Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century, 2012
Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image, 2009
Mothering in the Third Wave, 2008
Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic (2021) The #MeToo mo... more Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic (2021)
The #MeToo movement, created by activist Tarana Burke as a grassroots campaign ten years before it took off on social media, has unleashed a flood of pop culture books on misogyny, rape, rape culture, and sexual assault. Yet to date, no major work considers how the #MeToo movement might enrich our critical and pedagogical literary practices, or how literary and cultural studies might help feminist scholars better understand and marshal the powerful energies of #MeToo.
This volume aims to ignite a conversation about literature, culture, and sexual violence by gathering essays that bring these areas of inquiry and activism to bear on one other.
Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice, 2016
This article interrogates the ways in which the ideas of diversity, experience, and inclusion bec... more This article interrogates the ways in which the ideas of diversity, experience, and inclusion became central to the introductory Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) course at one institution and the way that various stakeholders define and interpret these terms. After providing a short local history and analyzing current and former instructors' understandings of these concepts as they function in the GWS introductory classroom, the authors further explore these themes with two case studies: transgender inclusion and Native American feminisms.
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 2006
This article examines how activists, advocacy groups, and writers are positioning the emerging mo... more This article examines how activists, advocacy groups, and writers are positioning the emerging mothers'movement vis-a-vis feminism. Iexplorethe negotiations andselfnaming strategies of various mothers' advocacy groups and how they reveal both ambivalence and allegiance towardferninism, arguing that we should understand the mothers'movement within thebroader-ame offeminism, andspec$cally within the context of the third wave and the ongoing project of redejining and expanding feminism. Moreover, I argue that it may benefit mothers' advocates t o engage more fully with feminist theories andpractice. Feministfiameworkc can he& t o suggest possibilities for increased interchange and alliance-building across the boundaries of d@erence---work that, I believe, remains@ndamental to the formation ofa truly inclusive mothers' and caregivers' movement.
MELUS, 2006
In October of 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered his troops to massacre as many as ... more In October of 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered his troops to massacre as many as 15,000 Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. 1 The attack came as a complete surprise to these Haitians, as well as to many Dominicans; no prior event had warned them of what was about to take place. The killings were swift and particularly brutal. 2 Trujillo ordered his soldiers to use machetes and other crude weapons instead of guns, a brutality captured by the name of the massacre: in Spanish, El Corte, the cutting, and in Haitian Krèyol, kout kouto, the stabbing. 3 Those who survived lived with permanent injuries, scars, and impairments as well as the psychological trauma of having experienced a massacre.
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The Scholar and Feminist Online, 2004
Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies, Vol. 2, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence, 2023
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, 2021
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, 2019
This chapter examines English-language life narrative written by those who are positioned in the ... more This chapter examines English-language life narrative written by those who are positioned in the social location of “mother” and whose writing reflects their engagement with the work of mothering. Because the history of both motherhood memoirs and those who would write about their experience as mothers is marked by exclusion and oppression, many scholars define maternal autobiography broadly. Motherhood memoirs in their current form began to be published in the later 20th century, and the subgenre expanded significantly in the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Feminist scholarship on the form has frequently explored topics related to the workings of narrative and the formation of maternal subjectivity. Debates center on whether the form remains complicit with, or critical of, heteronormative gender formation; why the majority of its authors reflect privileged identities, and to what extent this is changing; and how maternal autobiographical subjects are produced through the act of writing about mothering. Motherhood memoirs continue to change, providing a valuable window onto the shifting landscapes of contemporary parenting and family life and inviting us to imagine new possibilities and ways of forming family and raising the next generation.
Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives, 2016
Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies , 2015
The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo, 2015
Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, 2014
What Do Mothers Need? Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak Out on Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century, 2012
Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image, 2009
Mothering in the Third Wave, 2008
Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction, 2006
The Washington Post, 2023
Review of Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates, by Katie Barnes
LIBER: A Feminist Review, 2022
Review of Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, by Brandi Morin
Liber: A Feminist Review, 2022
Review of Kendra James's Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
The Women's Review of Books, 2021
Essay review of Marlo Mack's How to Be a Girl, plus eight other memoirs
Women's Review of Books, 2020
Review of Beauty, by Christina Chiu
Women's Review of Books, 2019
Review of I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying, by Bassey Ikpi
Women's Review of Books, 2019
Review of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation, by Jodie Patterson
Women's Review of Books , 2018
Review of Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
Women's Review of Books, Jan 2017
Review of three novels: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi; Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta; Th... more Review of three novels: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi; Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta; The Book of Memory, by Petina Gappah
Women's Review of Books, Jan 2016
Essay review of The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yo... more Essay review of The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, by Michelle Goldberg
Women’s Review of Books, 2014
Essay review of Ghana Must Go, by Taiye Selasi, and We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo.
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, 2013
Essay review of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage, ed. Caroline M. Grant and Lisa Catherine Harper... more Essay review of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage, ed. Caroline M. Grant and Lisa Catherine Harper; Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family, by Susan Weissman; and French Kids Eat Everything, by Karen Le Billon.
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, 2012
Essay review of The Conflict, by Elisabeth Badinter, and The Paradox of Natural Mothering, by Chr... more Essay review of The Conflict, by Elisabeth Badinter, and The Paradox of Natural Mothering, by Chris Bobel.
Women's Review of Books, Jul 2012
Essay review of fiction by Sefi Atta and literary criticism by Susan Andrade.
Women's Review of Books, Mar 2010
Essay review of The Thing Around Your Neck, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; I Do Not Come to You By ... more Essay review of The Thing Around Your Neck, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; I Do Not Come to You By Chance, by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani; An Elegy for Easterly, by Petina Gappah; and Women Writing Zimbabwe, ed. Irene Staunton.
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, 2010
Essay review of The War on Moms, by Sharon Lerner, and A Mother's Work, by Neil Gilbert.
Women's Review of Books, Mar 2009
Review of The Amputated Memory, by Werewere Liking.
Women's Review of Books, Mar 2006
Essay review of The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars, by Miriam Peskowitz, and Parenting and Professin... more Essay review of The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars, by Miriam Peskowitz, and Parenting and Professing, ed. Rachel Hile Bassett.
Women's Review of Books, Jul 2004
Essay review of Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, 2004
Essay review of The Mommy Myth, by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels; Maternal Desire, by Daphn... more Essay review of The Mommy Myth, by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels; Maternal Desire, by Daphne de Marneffe; and Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life, by Faulkner Fox.
Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology , 2011
Minerva Rising, 2019
Memoir essay
Allergic Living magazine, Jun 2014
The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality, 2014
The New York Times Motherlode Blog, Oct 2013
A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, 2013
The Washington Post, Aug 2007
Ducts: The Webzine of Personal Stories , 2004