Popular Writing

Books and Chapters

"Birthing New Life and Discovering New Strength" in Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone (ABC-CLIO, 2010) (Available here)

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Perpetual Revolt: Essays on Peace & Justice and the Shared Values of Secular, Spiritual, & Religious Progressives (Howling Dog Press, 2008)

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"Discovering Revolution" and "Under the Watchful Eye" in Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism (Howling Dog Press, 2007)

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Articles

• "The Call of Disobedience: Lessons for Social Change from Our Feminist Foremothers," The Humanist, August 18, 2020​
• Remembering the Humanism of Martin Luther King," The Humanist, January 19, 2015
• "Woman-Made: How Rethinking Pregnancy and Childbirth Could Undermine Sexism and Honor Women’s Reproductive Rights," Truth Out, December 7, 2014 
  
• John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive, Toward Freedom, October 4, 2014
• One Hundred Ways to Change the Subject: Plutocratic Fallacies in the Service of Fast-Food Exploitation, Truth Out, September 1, 2014; Znet, Sept 4, 2014
• Fast-Food Workers Challenge Stereotypes, Globalize Question of Fairness, Truth Out, August 30, 2014 
• Homeschooling for Critical Consciousness, Truth Out, August 14, 2014
• Abandoning the K-12 School System: Listening to Our Children and Thinking for Ourselves, Truth Out, August 13, 2014
• Unmasking the Patriarchal Values in Halloween Costumes: Naughty Leopards, Sassy Space Girls and Warrior Ninjas, Truth Out, October 31, 2013
• The Perils of Patriarchy for Men as well as Women, Truth Out, October 19, 2013; The Public Intellectuals Project, Oct. 30, 2013
• The Low Pay Behind America’s Fast Food: Strike Puts Fast Food Workers’ Struggle in Spotlight, Toward Freedom, Aug 29, 2013
• Why Should We All Be Considered ‘Equal’?, TruthOut, August 22, 2013
• Heretical Advice from a Happily and Heavily Indebted Ph.D.:Why Poor Students Shouldn't Fear Student Loans, TruthOut, April 25, 2013
• Working for Change in Higher Education: The Abysmal State of Adjunct Teacher Pay, Toward Freedom, Nov 19, 2012; TruthOut, Nov 25, 2012;AlterNet, Nov 29, 2012; Z Magazine, Dec 2012
• Will the Real Destro Please Stand Up? How Hollywood Helps to Obscure the Ugly Truth about American Militarism, TruthOut, Nov 4, 2012
• It’s Time for the Poor to Come Out of the Plutocracy’s Closet of Shame TruthOut, Nov 2, 2012; Everyday Feminism, Nov 27, 2012
• Lies of Plutocracy: Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor,TruthOut, Oct 26, 2012; Everyday Feminism, Nov 6, 2012
• Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production, Toward Freedom, Jan 5, 2012; Nation of Change, Jan 13, 2012; TruthOut, Jan 15, 2012
• How the Ignorance and Inaction of Americans Fosters Misery Around the Globe, Toward Freedom, Aug 3, 2011
• What Americans Have to Learn from the Arab Spring, Toward Freedom, July 21, 2011
• Hannah Arendt: The Trouble with Representative Government in the US , Znet, Dec 24,  2008
• Understanding the Evolution of the Media and the Rise of Public Relations through Habermas, Toward Freedom, June 16, 2008
  
  



Scholarly Works

Books and Chapters

Feminism and the Mastery of Women and Childbirth: an Ecofeminist Examination of the Cultural Maiming and Reclaiming of Maternal Agency During Childbirth (Academica Press, 2014)

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"What's So Funny about Childbirth? The Projection of Patriarchal Masculinity in Popular Comedic Childbirth Guides," in Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers, and Mothering (Demeter Press, 2015)

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"Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of C Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature," in Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal (Haymarket Books, 2012; Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)

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"Protestors as Persons of Interest: Coordinated Police Surveillance of a Funeral for Civil Rights," in Law against Liberty: The Criminalization of Dissent, Jeff Shantz, ed. Vandeplas Publishing. July 2011

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Edited Volumes

• Condorcet and Feminist Masculinity, Growing Our Field:Emerging Perspectives on Masculinities and Men’s Lives, (American Men’s Studies Annual Review, Volume II), pp. 151-161. Marlen Elliot Harrison and Phillip Ward Schnarrs, eds. 2011.

Refereed Journal Articles

• “Fade to White or Stereotype: Patriarchal Policing of Gender Norms in TV and Filmic Representations of Childbirth,” Gender Questions 2, no.1 (2014) pp.12-34
• Mother Beware: Perilous Scholarly and News Media Discourse around Homebirth. The International Journal of Communication and Health.” Fall 2013, Vol 1, no 2.
• Virtue Over Victory, Why We Should Adopt a Virtue Ethics Approach to Social Change. Zeteo, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing. Spring 2013.
• “High-Fidelity Birth Simulators in American Culture: An Ecofeminist Analysis,” The Journal of American Culture: “The Greening – or not – of America.” March 2012.Ethical Spectacle: Memorial in a Time of War. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture: “Inventions of Activism.” M. Benton and A. Clinton, eds. (vol 10, no 3).2010
• Exhuming the History of Feminist Masculinity: Condorcet, 18thCentury Radical Male Feminist, pp.42-61. Culture, Society & Masculinities (vol.2, Issue 1, Spring 2010)
• Fundamentalist Atheism and its Intellectual Failures, pp.263-280.Humanity & Society (vol. 32 no.3) 2008
• Condorcet’s Legacy Among the Philosophes and the Value of His Feminism for Today’s Man, pp.39-57. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism(vol. 16 no. 1) 2008
• Illusion of Conversion, pp. 54-71. The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies (vol. XII no.1) 2006
• A New Vision for Freethought: Reaching Out to Friends in Faithful Places, pp. 51-68. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism (vol. 14). 2006