Papers by Yvonne Garrett
In recent years, the idea that the algorithms behind for-profit search engines are somehow neutra... more In recent years, the idea that the algorithms behind for-profit search engines are somehow neutral or unbiased has been heavily critiqued but for those who still hold onto a belief of objectivity and accuracy, Safiya Umoja Noble presents a clear and well-researched argument against such naiveté. These algorithms and the searches they drive are instead, Noble argues, a part of systemic structural oppression around race and gender. For Noble, Google Search’s algorithms are structured in a way that supports dominant narratives reflecting hegemonic frameworks and these same frameworks are an integral part of the structured oppression of women and people of color. In other words, there is nothing neutral about the net
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color. Tim Jackson. University of Mississippi Press, 2016. 128 pp. $35.00 paperback
The Journal of Popular Culture, 2018
Feminist theorist Joann W. Scott suggests that women’s history is too often presented as a binary... more Feminist theorist Joann W. Scott suggests that women’s history is too often presented as a binary – either in opposition to or as dominated by male-centered narratives. Certainly, the various narratives of the Rising and Irish Nationalism tend to focus on male revolutionaries. Obsessed with physical and spiritual decency, the masculinized society of deValera’s post-partition Ireland formed “moral codes” that by definition exiled the Irish woman to social and political margins. Most histories of the Irish Revolution and the struggle to free Ireland ignore the importance of women and their participation as active revolutionaries, organizers and political theorists. This paper aims to trouble the “Great Men of History” construct not by simply replacing the masculine narrative with a “Great Women of History” narrative (Gonne, Markievicz, etc.) but through an investigation of Cumann na mBan and the broader women’s revolutionary and rights movements.
Conference Presentations by Yvonne Garrett
Feminist theorist Joann W. Scott suggests that women’s history is too often presented as a binary... more Feminist theorist Joann W. Scott suggests that women’s history is too often presented as a binary – either in opposition to or as dominated by male-centered narratives. Certainly, the various narratives of the Rising and Irish Nationalism tend to focus on male revolutionaries. Obsessed with physical and spiritual decency, the masculinized society of deValera’s post-partition Ireland formed “moral codes” that by definition exiled the Irish woman to social and political margins. Most histories of the Irish Revolution and the struggle to free Ireland ignore the importance of women and their participation as active revolutionaries, organizers and political theorists. This paper aims to trouble the “Great Men of History” construct not by simply replacing the masculine narrative with a “Great Women of History” narrative (Gonne, Markievicz, etc.) but through an investigation of Cumann na mBan and the broader women’s revolutionary and rights movements.
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Papers by Yvonne Garrett
Conference Presentations by Yvonne Garrett