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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 )Knitting Clio gets kanyelicio.us
What this blog would look like if given the Kanye West treatment (courtesy of Boing Boing).
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )More sexist crap from the left
via Feminist Law Professors. So Sarah Palin resigned, so does she deserve this? I think not. It’s not just the doods doing this. See Maureen Dowd in today’s NYT.
For a nice commentary on the sexism and ableism in all this, see this post from Women’s Health News.
RIP Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson
I wasn’t a huge fan of either, but am sad they’re gone.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sexism Against Conservative Women Is Still Sexism
I made a similar reflection regarding Gov. Palin’s visit to Seneca Falls on my blog earlier this week.More on David LettermanRead the Article at HuffingtonPost
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sunday Sermon, Women’s History Style
Today at Trinity Collinsville we had a guest sermon by our bishop suffragan, the Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens [the audio file of the sermon should be up in a few days). She started the sermon by talking about the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911, the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history up that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Knitting Clio=Gloria Steinem
Kittywampus posted a poll, Which Western feminist icon are you? [Kitty is Angela Davis -- interesting result for a white woman from North Dakota]
I’m a sucker for these, so I took it, and my result — Gloria Steinem:
“You are the McDonalds(tm) of liberal feminism, though you used to expouse some pretty radical ideas, you [...]
Women’s History Nostalgia Trip: Classic feminist programming for children
A group of friends and I are having a great time swapping favorite clips of children’s programs with feminist themes on Facebook. So that my technophobic colleague out West can join in the fun, here are some of the highlights.
The first is a clip from Sesame Street, proclaiming the various careers women can pursue:
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Women’s History Month Blogfest: Book Discussion of Judith Bennett’s History Matters
Several of my feminist blogger colleagues have decided to host a blog-based discussion of Judith Bennett’s book History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.) Each Monday in the month of March, one of them will write a post to her blog and each will comment on [...]
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