women while recognizing a history of sexual violence. This perspective is often used as a means for analyzing Black Women’s literature, as it marks the place where race, class, gender, and sexuality intersect. Womanism is unique because it does not necessarily imply any political position or v...
Received the amazing email message below from Kac Young. She fell under the influence of a dynamic group of radical feminists at Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood, California of all places during the late 1960s. These were provocateurs who challenged all kinds of conformity and many of them...
it was woman’s mission to reeducate him. To the extent that it accepted the idea of feminine moral superiority and, by implication, the traditional “separate sphere” for women, the movement was not
Eating meat is a defining characteristic of being a man, whereas eating meat is not a defining characteristic of being a woman. As a result, compared to men who view themselves as less traditionally masculine, men who consider themselves to be more traditionally masculine consume more meat (De...
I thinkPalladian(1946) might be my final Elizabeth Taylor novel (though, now I write that, unsure I’ve readIn A Summer Season) – it was one of her first and, as the Wikipedia page tersely notes, most clearly shows the influence of Jane Austen. ...
A ripe carnation and a real woman. Good stuff! This is a very interesting fragrance. It smells veryEstée Lauder– that kind of “cosmetic clean” that typifies theEstée Lauderarea in everyMacy’sthat you’ve ever walked through. The sillage ofEstée Legacyis straight out of that style. ...
General Baclay. She was “weird, but she was a good woman and in her own way she was very fair: she shot men and women just the same” (100). Birahima’s linguistic and ideological alacrity reflects this larger political and religious context...
We leave Gertrude Stein for the time being and check in with Lois Long, who was sampling the fall attractions of the New York nightclub scene in “Tables for Two.” In these excerpts, the 32-year-old Long continued her pose as a much older woman (“about to settle down with a gray ...
There is an area that is all done up like you are under water. This reading room had an otter that Ella loved. They improved the dental area a bit. Andrew had to show me the “tooth that had a cavity, but is now worth a lot of money.” There is an area that has to be new,...
While observing preliminary sketches of Aladdin and Jasmine (the former of whom was portrayed as a young boy, while Jasmine was a young woman), Jeffrey Katzenberg believed that a love story between the two would be seen as unrealistic, as a woman of Jasmine's age and beauty would never ...