Archive for August, 2008
This is What a Feminist Looks Like?
Well, maybe — if you’re looking at certain selected members of the women’s rights movement (some of whom didn’t call themselves feminists because the term hadn’t been coined yet). You see, Governor Palin belongs to an organization called Feminists for Life, which lists prominent women’s rights activists who were “overwhelmingly pro-life.” This is factually correct [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Thoughts on PUMAs
Kittywampus has a great post about the so-called “PUMAs” [short for "Party Unity My Ass"] –i.e. the diehard Hilary Clinton supporters/ she devils who supposedly will vote for McCain because they are so angry about the outcome of the Democratic primary. [see Katha Politt's article as well] I agree that this narrative is partly the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Dolores Huerta is Awesome
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this. If you don’t know whom I’m talking about, go here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Book Club: Wild Nights by Joyce Carol Oates
Last week, we read Wild Nights: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway, by Joyce Carol Oates. One person loved it, a few of use liked it (including me) and others thought it was just too strange to finish. I merely liked it because I didn’t think it was her [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Celebrate Women’s Equality Day
Since classes haven’t started yet, we aren’t officially celebrating Women’s Equality Day here at CCSU. I just received this from the National Women’s History Project, so am passing it along via the blog. Enjoy!
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A Speech for Women’s Equality Day
On August 26th, we are celebrating the anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [...]
Why Kool-aid is not a good metaphor
In today’s post, I’d like to raise my concerns about the use of “drinking the Kool-aid” as a metaphor for mass conformity — the latest example is a post on outcomes assessment by Clio Bluestocking . Since Clio is too young to remember the photos of bloated corpses rotting in the Guyana sunshine, I just [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Biden for Veep: so much for “change”
I’ve been dreading this, but it’s now official. Senator Obama has announced Joe Biden as his running mate.
How exciting (not) to have a potential VP whose propensity for verbal diarrhea is second only to Howard Dean. Woo-hoo! Yet another reason not to watch the convention. . .
[added later: Sigh. . . okay, if this is [...]
Much Ado About Nothing: Pro-Life Misconceptions About Contraception | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
Much Ado About Nothing: Pro-Life Misconceptions About Contraception | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
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This article comes courtesy of pro-choice blogger Christina Page. To put a historical perspective on her excellent commentary — one of the ironies of this whole “misconception” about hormonal contraception is that one of the original pill researchers, John Rock, thought [...]
Rethinking the Drinking Age: a historical perspective
Once again, Historiann has beat me in posting on a hot political topic — the Amethyst Initiative, initiated last month by a group of college presidents who argue that the National Minimum Drinking Act (1984), which imposed a penalty of 10% of a state’s federal highway appropriation on any state setting its drinking age lower [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )All Together Now — Facebook App for WordPress
Hi folks,
This is a test post using the WordPress Facebook application, as suggested by the “All Together Now”: A 2.0 Learning Experience” on the School Library Journal blog. I signed up for this experience to see what they’re offering that would be useful for my digital history course this fall, but have mostly been [...]
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