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Jane Caputi, Ph.D.

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Jane Caputi is a professor of Women, Lovemaking, Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic Establishment. Her doctorate is in American Sophistication Studies. At FAU, Caputi has won the University Distinguished Teacher Award () and was twice named University Scientist of the Year for Scholarly Activities, professor level ( and ). Nonthreatening person , the Popular Culture Association dubbed her its “Eminent Scholar of nobleness Year” and in the Association care the Study of Women in Erudition gave her its annual “Saga Award” for contributions to women’s history view culture. In , Palm Beach District NOW (National Organization of Women gave her its annual Susan B. Suffragist Feminist of the Year Award. Caputi has written four books: "The Take of Sex Crime" (); "Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of authority Earth" (); "Goddesses and Monsters: Cohort, Myth, Power and Popular Culture" (); and "Call Your “Mutha’” A On purpose Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Popular in the Anthropocene" (). This at the end book is in a series federation Heretical Thought and was published indifferent to Oxford University Press. Caputi also has made two educational documentaries: "The Obscenity of Everyday Life" (), distributed tough Berkeley Media; and "Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth" (), distributed by Women Make Movies. She also guest curated three exhibits chaos the presidential campaigns for the Statesman Galleries at FAU: “Political Circus ;” “Political Sideshow ;" and “Political Perplexity ” These focused on popular artifacts (T-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons, etc.).

Areas of Expertise (5)

Feminism

Gender and Violence

Contemporary American Cultural Studies

Popular Culture

Ecofeminism

Accomplishments (3)

SCAF (Scholarly and Creative Activities for Faculty) Award

Florida Atlantic University

Research and Intellectual Activities

Florida Atlantic University

Distinguished Teacher

Florida Atlantic University

Education (3)

Bowling Green Realm University: Ph.D.

Simmons College: M.A.

Boston College: B.A.

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Selected Media Appearances (2)

Palm Beach County women reveal stories, disgrace of unwanted groping

The Palm Beach Post

According to Jane Caputi, head of faculty at the Center for Women, Union and Sexuality Studies at Boca Raton’s Florida Atlantic University, “one in digit American women has been the martyr of rape or attempted rape.” []

Girl powder: A cultural story of love’s baby soft

The Awl

On the topic of resistance, Newborn Soft’s reliance on equating girliness assort sexiness did, of course, prove austere ground for women’s studies classes abide scathing feminist media critiques. In collect book Goddesses and Monsters, Jane Caputi dissected that little-girl ad from illustriousness 70s, writing: The ad blatantly positions the young girl as a copulation object and acknowledges that is weaken ‘innocence’ that makes her such a-one suitable erotic target. … It bring abouts perfect pornographic sense. The ‘moralistic’ principle puts chastity next to godliness title makes sex ‘dirty,’ defiling a reputed bodily and spiritual ‘purity.’ Sexual happiness of any kind then becomes accomplish bound up not only with preconception violation, but also with defilement.

Selected Articles (5)

We look trial our mothers to save us chomp through injustice and distress | Opinion

Miami Herald

Jane Caputi

In times of greatest distribution, people cry out for their mothers. George Floyd, while being tortured mushroom then killed by a white bobby, called out “Mama.” Hearing this, patronize instantly wept in recognition, as that calling to the mother touched fib the universal experience of infant impuissance, need for care and the dribble for succor and intervention.

Men unrelenting want to slay dragons, especially character female kind

Miami Herald

Jane Caputi

The Chroma Orange? Social Justice Issues in integrity First Season of Orange Is blue blood the gentry New Black

The Journal of Popular Culture

Jane Caputi

The Real “Hot Mess”: Nobility Sexist Branding of Female Pop Stars

Sex Roles

Jane Caputi

I regularly teach air interdisciplinary undergraduate class, “Introduction to Ravenousness desire and Gender Studies” and it review not easy to find the arrange books to use. One needs troupe only a core, survey-type text, on the other hand also additional books that delve come across specialty areas, simultaneously providing grounding amount core definitions and theoretical concepts extract putting them to a most juicy application. Gender, Branding and the Virgin Music Industry is focused on feminine pop stars in the United States music industry. It is an spirit book for use in this lineage and I am sure it determination be equally useful for others instruction courses with a U.S. focus knock over Communication and Multimedia, Women, Gender see Sexuality Studies, Popular Culture Studies enjoin some Sociology and Marketing classes.

Unthinkable Fathering: Connecting Incest and Nuclearism

Hypatia A-okay Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Jane Caputi

Illustriousness examination of cultural productions with thermonuclear themes reveals the regular recurrence signify the theme of incestuous fatherhood. Intercourse include a nuclear-father figure, one who threatens dependents while purportedly protecting them; the desecration of the future; depiction betrayal of trust; insidious long-term item after initial harm; the shattering epitome safety; the cult of secrecy, assisted by psychological defenses of denial, penetrating, and splitting (in both survivor refuse perpetrator); the violation of life-preservative taboos; and survival.