Dr. Rebecca Hains
Author, professor and speaker | Children's media culture, media literacy, and media criticism
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Does the “War on Pink” need to stop for boys’ sakes? No, and here’s why.
In a recent blog post on Girl w/Pen, professors CJ Pascoe and Tristan Bridges—sociologists whose work focuses on masculinity—make a strange request of their fellow feminist scholars and activists. “Stop the war on pink,” their headline pleads; “let’s take a look…
Read MoreCFP: Princess Cultures: Mediating Girls’ Identities and Imaginations
My colleague Miriam Forman-Brunell and I are co-editing an anthology about princesses. It will be published by Peter Lang, the same academic press that published my previous book. Please let me know if you’d like to contribute an essay; and…
Read MoreSave the Childhood Studies program at Rutgers University!
In 2007, Rutgers University launched North America’s first doctoral-level program in Childhood Studies–a multidisciplinary program located at Rutgers’ Camden, NJ campus that also offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The program’s creation was fantastic news: the program promised to serve as…
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