Lady Wranglers
...held a different set of challenges compared with the men. As Jones points out in her excellent book Femininity, Mathematics, and Science, 1880-1914, the women entered college generally far less...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...as a pharmacy technician. We talked about the inherent femininity of a habit, the way our clothes might advertise our values, and where a gal can get a good vodka...
Sunday Reading
...Femininity as a technology: some thoughts on hyperemployment Jacob Remes : Symbolism in novels, as described by novelists For God and Hobby Lobby A genetic history of American metissage “We...
Epic Fail
...not only cutting but the act of assemblage to create a new whole). Operating from a psychoanalytic understanding and responding to the Freudian assertion of femininity as failed masculinity, the...
Curls and the Patriarchy
...full, maternal cheeks dotted with bright blush, arched eyebrows, curled hair. That is, I saw the signs of conventional femininity more than I saw a moderator. It pains me to...
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...femininity of professional women as a counter to the popular 19th century argument that such work made them too masculine to be women. Women writing their own lives at this...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.31.12
...policies?" What makes a woman look powerful?: Darlene at Campbell and Kate (a boutique company of button-down shirts designed for large-breasted women) examines visible signals of power and femininity via...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.12.13
...to police." She was charged with sixth-degree larceny for theft of services. ...And Everything In Between: Lady in red: Protests in Turkey and an icon of femininity colliding...
Contemporary Scottish Friction
...they going to vote next year? The crowd answered as one. “YES!” Ten-thousand of them at least, maybe twice that. Dressed in blue and white, flag waving, face painted. Drunk...
Folk Etymologies
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...was a useless strategy and could never overturn a white minority regime bent on retaining its power at any cost. At the end of the day, I said, violence was...
TNI Vol. 15 Editorial Note: The National Conversation
...generally. — Barack Obama, official response to White House petitions to legalize marijuana If the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least...
Sunday Reading
...Jackson The Irony of MLK Day 2013: A Renewed Invitation into White Supremacy Carceral feminism and the war on sex workers Columnism, complicity and crisis 5 Things I Learned About...
Not for You
...Fox, make the rest. The distinction between indie and “major” filmmaking can no longer be made on aesthetic grounds either. Though indies might choose to appear grainy, black and white,...
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Burning Man Is Grey
...and replaced in the sky by a simple white disc, a blank sky sigil of NASA-ready interplanetary ruin porn. And then your vision suddenly sharpens again as you cut your...