We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, yo...
Another attempt to answer the question involves shifting the ground slightly and asserting, as some contemporary feminists do, that there is a different kind of “greatness” for women’s art than for men’s, thereby postulating the existence of a distinctive and recognizable feminine style, diffe...
By now, you know this one isn’t true, but as it’s one of the biggest myths in history books, we had to include it. Somehow, Columbus is credited with “discovering” America, but what does it mean to “discover” a place that’s already inhabited. Columbuswasn’t even the first ...
So while it’s tempting to write off faking as an easy out at best — or a betrayal of feminists at worst — perhaps we should be a little more generous toward the fakers among us. There’s so much pressure on women to live our best sex lives: to be enthusiastic, adventurous, ...
From Madonna to Lilith and back again: Women, feminists, and pop music in the United States During the Dixie Chicks' Top of the World Tour in 2003, while in London, lead singer Natalie Maines made the off-the-cuff comment that they were ashamed th... RH Currans-Sheehan 被引量: 1发表...
Good question, Kathleen, I thought. But I didn’t have an answer. To this day I have no idea what the Boogie Woogie club was supposed to be or why I’d thought of starting it. I do remember seeing the wordsboogie woogiein a song title in one of my lesson books for accordion and...
covering books and pop culture from contemporary young feminists’ and queer perspectives. The now-defunct blog offered literary reviews, Q&As with indie authors, and think pieces on film and music. For this collection, whose foreword comes fromMichelle Tea, Crawford gathers favorite pieces from con...
While some feminists are trying to forge change from within their inherited faiths, goddess worshipers may graft new beliefs onto their heritage or opt out altogether. “I was raised a Catholic, and I had difficulty buying that God created everything,” says Hill. “It made more sense that...
The books under consideration here complicate the analyses of these earlier scholars even as they continue to expand our understanding of the diverse ways in which women both participated in and represented that participation behind the lines. Women's Writing on the First World War and Nurses at ...
For more on feminists and socialist women, see Perry Willson, Women in Twentieth-Century Italy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 47–49. Google Scholar James Hannah, ed., The Great War Reader (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2000), xviii. Google Scholar Mario Isne...