Archive for October, 2009
Knitting Clio Goes to Stitches East
Last weekend I went to Stiches East, a large knitting/crochet/fiber expo at the Connecticut Convention Center. I started my day by taking a class on standed color (aka Fairisle knitting) with Beth from See Jane Knit. This really got me hooked on Fair Isle — and I can see myself doing more of this in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sloppy Medical History Reporting at NPR
This is in reply to the story “Accidents of History Created U.S. Health System” on yesterday’s All Things Considered:
I’m a medical historian and find several historical inaccuracies in this report. The first and most egregious is the claim that early twentieth century medicine was “medieval.” This was hardly the case — by this point there [...]
New Feminist Disability Blog Launched
via Our Bodies Our Blog. According to their About section:
“FWD/Forward is a group blog written by feminists with disabilities. It is a place to discuss disability issues and the intersection between feminism and disability rights activism. The content here ranges from basic information which is designed to introduce people who are new to disability [...]
CFP: Berkshire Conference
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians has just posted its call for papers for the 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which will be held at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, June 9-12, 2011. The theme is “Generations,” and the link to the call will remain in the sidebar at left until March 1 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Club: A Short History of Women
The book club selection for September was the National Book Award finalist, A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert. The book centers around the descendants of a British suffragette, Dorothy Trevor Townsend, who starved herself to death for the cause because there was nothing else she could do – a perfect example of what [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Roman Polanski and The History of “Rape-Rape” in America
Now that I’ve cooled down a bit about Whoopi Goldberg’s clueless remarks regarding the arrest of Roman Polanski, I think I’ll write a little historical primer for all those out there who are wondering, WTF?
The core of Goldberg’s argument, as I see it, is that Polanski accepted a plea bargain to the charge of “having [...]
