Here are my brief (for me …) reviews of our online book group‘s January, February, and March books, for those of you who aren’t following along at Goodreads but might still like to hear about these books/issues: Linda M. Blum’s At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States This book [...]
[originally posted at my old blog on 3 November 2009] A recent anonymous commenter on my post “Breastfeeding, Sexism, and Feminism” wrote: I appreciate the balanced and compassionate approach you took to such a divisive issue. You have no idea how wigged out some people got about this. One question that I have is if [...]
[originally posted at my old blog on 26 May 2009] Partly because of Hanna Rosin’s Atlantic article “The Case against Breast-Feeding,” several versions of ‘Do you think breastfeeding is antifeminist?’ have been addressed to me in casual conversation of late. ‘So-and-so [the father of a young baby] keeps telling me breastfeeding is antifeminist,’ ‘Have you [...]
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pool rules
Oh, swimming pools, what is with the people who run you? Pools may be the most rule-oriented place I go. There’s always that sign with the long list of rules in small print. So maybe they just get overexcited? For instance: a few years ago, my friend lived in a little community whose pool rules [...]