Reality Fiction
...scripts of mediated life. They've internalized a mythology of love, of friendship, and of femininity. They worry over what to wear, they worry over each other, in however perfunctory a...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...Between: The "pink pyramid": Virginia Sole-Smith has a fantastic cover feature in Harper's this month, one that beautifully weaves together themes of labor, femininity, women's precarity, and the American...
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...book in which race and identity are these floating signifiers, and gender is only important insofar as femininity is a hyper-legible surface (as when Clarisse Riviere stares at herself in...
The "Man's Woman," the "Woman's Woman," and Other Apocryphal Creatures
...femininity. For whenever I’ve tried to puzzle out which camp I might belong in, neither one has felt satisfying. The “man’s woman” and the “woman’s woman” are each reactors, not...
❒ she ❒ i ✔ haze
...obviously absence of orality, too (more anaphrodisia). if wendy is the aggravating aspect of femininity, tinker bell is its perturbing, enigmatic one. wendy is predictable, which makes her boring. tinker...
Virulence in the Virtual
...the other way around (Hernandez). The gendered language of domination forces women into a paradoxical and troubling situation where they must denigrate femininity in order to feel empowered. Hernandez’s victory...
Sunday Reading
...Claris Cyarron's Discourse on The Spatiality and Themes of Fallout New Vegas The New Intimacy Economy Weak and Wounded: "Session 9", Work, and Insurgent Femininity "there are so many different...
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...able to say “it’s research” gave me license to try things. It’s also helped that this has all occurred during baseball season: the excesses of masculinity balancing those of femininity...
The Well-Heeled Life: Shoes, Ability, and Fear [Guest Post]
...and need for stability is theirs as well, and they still found significant others. Despite the lack of heels in their lives they still love, and are loved. The femininity,...
Blogs Round Up
...a sort of over-the-top femininity that goes hand-in-hand with the conservative “let women be women again!” mind-set. Read more. The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 2 There’s a time for...