Mimi Schippers
Professor & Department Chair
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Mimi Schippers received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Madison with a doctoral concentration in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her areas of expertise are culture, gender, sexuality, race, feminist theory, and queer theory. She has published 2 books, one on a rock music subculture and the other on polyamory. Her forthcoming book is an examination of how the stories told in American culture about "the good life" and happiness are tied up with notions of monogamy, coupling, and sexual exclusivity.
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Northeastern Illinois University
Links
Articles
Reading Pulp Fiction: Femininity and power in second and third wave feminist theory
This article adds to the growing literature distinguishing second and third wave feminist theory. It opens by outlining theoretical differences between second wave and third wave definitions of femininity and the role and impact of femininity on gender relations of domination, whilst briefly acknowledging the complications of the relationship between third wave feminism and post-feminism. It then suggests that these diverging perspectives on embodied femininity result from fundamentally different second wave and third wave theories of power. In doing so, it develops a third wave conceptual definition of femininity and a theoretical framework for power relations that are distinct from a second wave approach. It illustrates these differences by offering a close reading of textual representation of femininity in the film Pulp Fiction.
Media Appearances
November 2019 Reads for the Rest of Us
Don’t be afraid of the long title, Mimi Schippers’ latest book is accessible, educational and confirming of lives that haven’t received as much study and attention as they should. Her development of the “poly gaze” will interest many and is demonstrated throughout. There should be more books written on polyamory, and they should all be as compassionate, critical and transformative as this one.
Group offers an inclusive, LGBT-friendly space for mindfulness meditation
Mimi Schippers, department chair of Tulane University’s sociology program and scholar in queer theory, thinks mindfulness is a good fit for the LGBTQ+ space.
Sugar daddy website sets up sweet arrangements for students
“Lots of people come to New Orleans as tourists and New Orleans is known as a sex tourism place. Lots of people come to New Orleans for conventions and so the wealthy men would be coming here, it’s not their home.” Mimi Schippers, a professor and chair of the department of sociology and gender and sexuality program, said.
This App for Threesomes Might Be for Something Else Entirely
Mimi Schippers, an associate professor of sociology and gender studies and sexuality at Tulane University, wrote the forthcoming Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities. In her academic article for NYU Press, “3nder and the Threesome Imaginary,” Dr. Schippers wrote, “According to representations of 3nder threesomes, the couple is heterosexual and the person invited into their bed is a woman…Where are the threesomes that include two men and one woman?”
Todd d'Amour and Veronica Russell crackle with dark chemistry in Southern Rep's 'Venus In Fur'
***Following the performance Friday, January 11 only, WWNO "The Reading Life" host and former Times-Picayune books writer Susan Larson will lead "Venus In Fur meets Fifty Shades of Grey: Women & Power 2013," a discussion on the play, the bestselling pop-S&M novel and gendered power dynamics in general. She's joined by burlesque dancer Bella Blue and Tulane University associate professor of sociology and gender and sexuality studies Dr. Mimi Schippers.
