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Visiting Associate Professor
Gender and Women's Studies; English
Astrid Henry teaches courses on feminist theory, sexuality studies, LGBTQ studies and queer theory, critical whiteness studies, pop culture, feminist memoirs, and third-wave feminism.
Henry is the author of Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave
Feminism (Indiana University Press, 2004), a book which analyzes third-wave
feminism and provides a theoretical framework for understanding contemporary
generational conflicts as they have developed between feminism's third and second
waves in the U.S. over the last two decades. Particular chapters focus on: the
emergence of feminism's third wave in the 1990s and its critique of second-wave
feminism; the generational relationship between feminism's second and first waves;
the role of sexuality in the third wave's assertion of generational difference;
queer feminism and its relationship to 1970s lesbian feminism; and the central role of
feminists of color, particularly black feminists, in the development of third-wave
feminism. Excerpts from Not My Mother's Sister have been reprinted in The
Women's Movement Today: an Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism (2006),
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics (2005), and the Chronicle of
Higher Education (2004).
Henry's articles on third-wave feminism and generational relationships within U.S.
feminism appear in Women's Studies Quarterly and PMLA, as well as in
the anthologies Different Wavelengths (2005), Reading Sex and the City
(2003), Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (2003), and
Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment and Transformation (2000).
Her new book project, currently titled Writing a Feminist's Life, is a study of
memoirs by U.S. feminists since the 1970s.
Henry received her Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Modern Studies Concentration
of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's English Department. She received an
M.A. from the New School for Social Research and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence
College. Since 2006, Henry has served as the Member-at-Large Representative to
the National Women's Studies Association's Governing Council .
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