Obviously, given the lack of announcement so far, there’s no book club meeting this month. Thanks to the patience of fellow bookclubbers as I reschedule for Wednesday, May 24. The next reading will be The Academic Kitchen, a social history of the academic discipline of home economics, using the case of UC Berkeley. As the […]
I’m wondering why almost all the clientele for Haymarket Pizza are men.
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My post on the Linda Hirschman article brought some grumbling in the comment section and plenty more here (hat tip: Crooked Timber). I should hasten to add that another, obvious reason I hestitate to be judgmental about anyone’s personal-as-political choices is that as a gay non-parent, I hardly have to face the lifestyle tradeoffs and […]
Wow, this American Prospect polemic on feminism’s current crisis is really, really fascinating. Argument in a nutshell: to the extent that feminism has molded itself into a movement of individual choice and of women’s rights, it has ignored the true insight of women’s liberation that the family and the private sphere is the locus of […]
I don’t think I was alone among book club members in feeling that Marriage, An Intimate History didn’t live up to expectations. The biggest overarching problem with the book is its sophomoric writing: paragraphs typically run three sentences long, cheesy pop music quotes are meant as illustration, chapters are arranged chronologically rather than conceptually, and […]
Local blogger Halley returns from the BlogHer convention and has a number of roundup posts, including this one on the differences between female-dominated and male-dominated conferences. I’m not sure I’d subscribe to a Carol Gilligan model of womenspace as always mutually supportive, but given the still marginalized place of women-authored blogs in online public discourse, […]
Halley Suitt bemoans the stick-thin bodies of magazine models and wonders, perhaps tongue in cheek, if gay men might be responsible:
Think of Kate Moss — as a "biological mature woman", she’s sub-par because she looks more like a skinny little boy. She does NOT have that aspect which mature women SHOULD develop as they […]
Kevin Drum lays out a mea culpa over women in the blogosphere and writes,
if men complain that women spend too much time blogging about “women’s issues” — and I know that some of them do — and if women complain that men spend too little time blogging about women’s issues — and some of […]