Posted in Feminism, Gender, United States on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In her contribution to the debate over the state of feminism and the mother-daughter battle circling Hillary Clinton’s candidacy as the first viable female presidential contender, The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the Fourth Wave, Amanda Fortini writes, “In particular, the campaign has divided women and the men they know on the subject of race. [...]
Posted in Gender on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, after a temporary absence from the land of the internets, AdHoc Magazine, Columbia’s premier (=only) progressive magazine, is back online! As a kickback to the past, here’s an article we did the year it all began.
Columbia University, like many contemporary universities, has a problem with “leaks” in the academic pipeline: i.e. a significantly [...]
Posted in Gender on April 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to the new Oslo opera house this weekend and showed a bit of décolletage. Now, while this news is unworthy in itself (and yes, I do feel ambivalent about drawing attention to it), there does seem to be a gulf of difference between the German newspapers’ coverage of this versus [...]
Posted in Gender, History, United States on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Forget the title, we should probably just take “masculine” out of the picture just as we take “feminine” out. What female wants to be described as “feminine” (shrinking, timid, ladylike, well-kept), and what male wants to be described as “masculine” (grunty, gruff, muscular, insensitive, sports-watching)? (To be fair, I can think of a few on [...]
Posted in Feminism, Gender, tagged Feminism, Gender on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the inter-generational feminist panel at the New School last week, Deborah Siegel mentioned her “click” moment—that moment when she realized that the personal and political struggles she faced were not hers alone but were experienced by many women.
This got me thinking: what was my “click” moment? When did it happen? I began to label [...]
Posted in Activism, Feminism, Gender, tagged Feminism, Generations on March 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Feminist Generations/Feminist Locations: The Continuing Vitality of Feminist Thought and Action
Here it is finally, a recap of a spectacular panel, held at the New School, March 27, 2008, with Deborah Siegel, Linda Abad, Meredith Tax, Ann Snitow, Cleopatra LaMothe, and Erica Reade.
A meeting of the feminist minds across generations came together at the New School [...]
Posted in Gender, History, New York, tagged Lusty Ruling Ladies, Spitzer, Women in History on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not like we haven’t been deluged with the whole Spitzer scandal, but I thought this post by Judith Shulevitz at Slate’s XX Factor really summed up many of my thoughts at the public airing of the proverbial dirty laundry. First, let me state, that I think Spitzer was right to step down from office. Not [...]
Posted in Gender, History, tagged Bonnie Smith, Gender History, Jill Lepore, New Yorker, Richard Evans on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
An Amateur Historian’s Response to “Just the Facts, Ma’am” in The New Yorker, March 24, 2008.
Harvard historian Jill Lepore wrote a fascinating critical essay in the New Yorker this week beginning with a very worthy question: what is all this fuss on history vs. fiction vs. memoir? Why do we crucify the James Freys of [...]
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