 Shira Tarrant |
"This will be a highly interactive event and Shira Tarrant will be inviting Q and A from the audience," Dr. Ingrid Johnson-Robledo, Women's Studies Coordinator, said. "Her talk will pose questions about pornography and politics. Without arguing that porn is either good or bad, Dr. Tarrant will discuss the complexities of the issues."
An expert on gender politics, sexuality, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity, Dr. Tarrant is the author of Men and Feminism (Seal Press), and When Sex Became Gender (Routledge). She is an assistant professor with the Women‘s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach.
Dr. Tarrant‘s work has appeared in mainstream and academic publications including Bitch Magazine, BUST, Ms. Magazine, off our backs, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Genre, and Huffington Post.
Her other books include the provocative anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge), and she co-edited the anthology, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, which will be out in 2011 (SUNY Press). She is currently at work on the book, Pop Culture Propaganda and the anthology, Pleasure and Peril: Questions About Sex From the Bed and Beyond.
Dr. Tarrant's essays have been published in Fix Me Up: Essays on Television and Makeover Shows (McFarland), The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism (Greenwood Press), The Encyclopedia of International Political Science (CQ Press), and Robot Love (Pinchback Press).
Shira Tarrant is the column editor for ―The Man Files‖ at the popular blog Girl With Pen and she has joined the starting line-up for Ms. Magazine‘s new blog launch.
She has been quoted widely in print, television, radio and online media (including the Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Sydney Morning Herald, WBAI-FM in NY and KPFT-FM in Houston).
