Archive for November, 2009
Women Behaving Badly: Cindy Sheehan at CCSU
via The New Britain Herald Unlike the troll in the comments section I don’t think her 15 minutes of fame has passed. If anything her message is more relevant than ever — it’s just harder to criticize the war because many anti-war protesters under President Bush were as much if not more anti-Bush as they [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Thoughts on New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
I’ve been replying to a query about this on Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell’s blog, so am going to put some of my thoughts down here at Knitting Clio as well. Susan writes:
“Here are the new recommendations. Tell me I’m getting all conspiracy-theorist and I will at least half-listen, but we all know women whose [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Veterans Day Celebration: Where are the Women?
Earlier this week, my colleagues and I organized an event honoring women veterans at CCSU. Our headliner was VA Commissioner Linda Spoonster Schwartz, who started her career during the Vietnam war. At that time, the military only permitted 2% of active duty personnel to be female. So, Schwartz began her career as a contract nurse [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Knitting Clio is Mad as Hell at Publisher’s Weekly
via She Writes, who tells us that Publishers Weekly included ZERO female authors in its list of best books of 2009. The blog encourages us women writers to participate in SHE WRITES DAY OF ACTION. Here’s what they ask us to do, including my replies:
“By Friday, November 13th, please do three simple, but enormously powerful, [...]
Sex and “Mad Men”
via Historiann, who asks what we think about the portrayal of sex on “Mad Men.” Historiann observes that this is the era of Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl (1962) — so where’s all the fun? Well, my first reaction is that Brown’s main message was that because women were at a disadvantage [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Once Again, Jail and Bail Fundraisers aren’t cool
As I wrote back in April, fundraisers that “arrest” and “jail” volunteers for fundraising purposes are tasteless and outrageous. Imagine my shock and dismay when I arrived at church this morning to find that the rector has agreed to have a “warrant” put out for a fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy Association (aka “Jerry’s Kids”) hosted [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A Transwoman in need of Feminism 101
In this month’s The History of Science Society | Newsletter, historian Alice Dreger writes about the kind of an encounter at the National Women’s Studes Association meeting that they don’t prepare you for in graduate school (although maybe on the middle school playground). For those unfamiliar with Dreger’s work, she is best known for her [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Knitting Clio really does knit, doesn’t feel guilty
My colleague Aimee wrote a great post on creativity and academic work at ProfHacker.com. This reminded me of a book I read about ten years ago called The Artist’s Way by Julie Cameron. [she also has a similar book called The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon]. The book describes how to get in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hot off the Presses: The Encyclopedia of American Disability History
via Disability Studies, Temple U.
Just in time for my senior seminar on Disability History!
