is that you make yourself throw, catch, etc. with your child so as to avoid enacting men-play-sports-women-watch before his very eyes, even though you grew up thinking you were weak and delicate and sort of virtuously incompetent at athletic stuff. And then maybe it turns out that hitting a ball with a bat in your [...]
[originally posted at my old blog on 16 October 2008] In one of her letters to the editor of the London Times, militant suffragist Emily Davison makes a critique and a plea that continue to resonate very much for me today (“Women’s Work,” 22 April 1911, 6G). A student in one of my writing courses [...]
[This post is the fifth in a series of guest posts on contemporary culture and pregnancy, parenting, and children. I love this piece because I'm totally curmudgeonly about television and popular movies--a big annoying snob--and it undercuts that tendency quite nicely. This post comes to us from Shannon R. Wooden, an assistant professor of English at [...]
[This post is the third in a series of guest posts on contemporary culture and pregnancy, parenting, and children. Today's post comes to us from Dina Hanafy, who holds a BA from Wayne State University and has presented her research at a number of conferences, speaking on diverse topics all unified by her fervent interests in [...]
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links for thought, June 2011 (2 of 3)
from Andrew Ladd at The Good Men Project, “A Billion Wicked Assumptions” (a review of Sai Gaddam and Ogi Ogas’s A Billion Wicked Thoughts) [Internet porn searches are] a valuable source of data, say the authors, because the internet is anonymous, and when given anonymity people are more likely to go after what they really want—so [...]