Check out this set of tweets tying together feminism and Princess Bride. My guess is that you check out #feministprincessbride you will find many more. The movie keeps on giving.
Friday Nerd Blogging: Princess Bride FTW
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Check out this set of tweets tying together feminism and Princess Bride. My guess is that you check out #feministprincessbride you will find many more. The movie keeps on giving.
The James Bond movies aren't the first place most would look to learn about masculinity; it's an action movie, the special effects are always amazing, and most of us just leave the gender analysis...
The Human Security Report Project (HSR) recently released their 2012 Report. The first chapter on wartime sexual violence makes sweeping conclusions and provocative claims about the nature and rates...
SURVEY: Ladies: Do you like having the option of wearing pants, do you enjoy taking time off after giving birth and do you like that people don't freak out if you have to breast feed in public, is...
Today, a group of articles in the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the New York Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and other newspapers, comment on the AAUW (American Association of University Women) report which will be webcast this Thursday. These articles reminded me of a teacher that I'd had when I was young, who, despite my stellar performances in math courses, told me that girls don't do, or need to do, math past algebra. Apparently, I am not alone, as the report lets us know that 40% of women who are now in the surveyed "STEM" (science and engineering) fields were...
In the print version of Time Magazine, the story linked in the title of this post is itself titled differently. Instead of "The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh," the story is called "The Sea Witch." Much of the story is the same, however: a female captain in the United States Navy was relieved of her command for "cruelty and maltreatment" of her crew aboard the U.S.S. Cowpens. Among the (ir)relevant tidbits about Captain Graf in the article are: that she remains single, despite the fact that her sister married; that a chaplain once told her she was "a nice lady" who had "a hard job";...
I am, perhaps, the world's worst guest blogger. I do it rarely, if at all, and in a scattered way. I keep meaning to, but then ... Perhaps I am not suited for this medium of communication. Or maybe I am just distracted. With apologies to my colleagues for my flawed posting habits, however, I am not quite ready to give up on myself-as-blogger, and feel like weighing in on this question of "what to read on gender and foreign policy" might be a good place to make amends for my otherwise neglectful blogging (even if I have not managed to be timely even in this endeavor). First, I'd like to agree...
As a closet lawyer, I admit to following the news about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. As someone who studies gender and leadership in global politics, I’ve been interested in what I’ve found. Putting aside for a second the crazy “news” stories, which report that “Sotomayor has been unmarried since 1983 and lives in Greenwich Villiage, New York, a haven for Gays and radical leftists” (stormfront.org), “a racist, feminazi who judges cases based on feeling,” (republitarian.com), and declare “open season on the ‘bitch’” (salon.com), there is an interesting debate to be...
Michelle Obama is doing something very interesting. She is taking back family values from the right.According to Reuters: Michelle Obama brings the skills of a corporate lawyer to the White House as first lady to President-elect Barack Obama, but she says her priority will be her role as 'mom-in-chief' to the couple's two daughters. Michelle Obama, 44, was a passionate advocate for her husband's candidacy, but she says she would not want a direct policy role in an Obama administration.To those for whom breaking the gendered glass ceiling would have felt as or more transformative than seeing...