Archive for October, 2008
Heath Ledger and Bipolar Disorder
In yet another shameless effort to boost my blog stats, here’s a comment on Trouble With Spikol’s recent post on the possibility that Heath Ledger had bipolar disorder. According to a new biography, Heath’s uncle Hadyn has bipoloar disorder and suggests that the young star may have been as well. Spikol says she hates these [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Drinking at UConn
I don’t subscribe to the Hartford Courant, so it was only by chance that I saw this article on drinking and Spring weekend at the University of Connecticut while I was getting my oil changed this morning. I agree with the comments section — this really isn’t surprising. What’s surprising is that college officials are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sometimes being a Pain gets results
A few posts ago I complained about the Chronicle of Higher Education ignoring messages from me and my editors about my new book. After several more futile attempts to contact them, I finally posted my frustrations on the Chronicle’s online forum. Within a few hours the scholarly book editor replied. Since the book has been [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Girls Studies Conference at SCSU
The past two days I attended the 18th annual Women’s Studies conference at Southern CT State University, the topic of which was “Girls’ Culture & Girls’ Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood.” Some interesting resources and papers I learned about included:
Leandra Preston teaches a course on girls’ studies and has a fascinating virtual center for Girls [...]
Return Visit by Mary Jo Kane
Yesterday, we had the privilege of a return visit by Dr. Mary Jo Kane from the Tucker Center at the University of Minnesota, who gave a great presentation on her research on media representations of female athletes. Her main points were that the “Sex sells” argument in favor of representing female athletes in sexualized ways [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Paul Longmore on Palin, Obama, and Disability Issues
The Huffington Post recently published an excellent article by Paul Longmore on why Sarah Palin is NOT an advocate for disabled persons. Read it and “become a fan” so that the Huff-Po will publish more articles on disability issues.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )October is ALSO Disability Awareness Month
But it gets buried under the flurry of pink crap products that get carted out for Breast Cancer Awareness Month every October. Yet Disability Awareness Month has been around longer — indeed, this is the 20th anniversary of the month, and a whole week for the “physically handicapped” was created in 1945. As Rosemary Garland-Thomson [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Book announcement: New Book on Women Physicians
Courtesy of H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Ellen More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry are pleased to announce a new, co-edited book from Johns Hopkins University Press, Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (2008). This volume examines the diverse careers and lives of American women physicians since the mid-19th century, their struggles for equality, professional accomplishment, and personal happiness. [...]
First Review of my book
The first book review for my book, Student Bodies, just appeared in the September issue of Journal of American History. Unfortunately you need a subscription to read the whole thing but the best parts are at the beginning anyway.
Now, if I can just get the Chronicle of Higher Education to include my book in the [...]
Guest Blogger: Janet Golden on testing and the election
This comes from my buddy Janet Golden at Rutgers. Enjoy!
I got my lowest grade in school in Algebra class. It really wasn’t for my performance on tests and quizzes but because I annoyed the teacher by raising my hand and asking “why?” I didn’t want to learn formulas and calculations unless I understood what the [...]
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