...Illustrations from Our Famous Women: An Authorized and Complete Record of the Lives and Deeds of Eminent Women of Our Times. Giving for the First Time the Life...
...women of various ethnicities: black women (Naomi Campbell, Beverly Peele, Sade), Latina women (Selena), Asian women (Tina Chow, Joan Chen). It’s no coincidence that this move happened in the 1960s...
...in front of Mad Money so they can learn about investing, because what good is education now anyway? Mike feeds his dream of opening a custom-furniture business by hustling construction...
...for the most part I think I approach other women as potential allies, not competition or a measuring stick of my own appeal. No, my thigh-checking was more akin to...
...in miniature: Aggressively insecure men harass women whose disinterest is irrelevant to them, blithely sailing past boundaries to demand that their manhood be looked at and validated; scornful women pass...
...Clay Shirky observed at the Awl last week that he and I disagree over whether the trend toward MOOCs in higher education is reversible—he says no, and he says...
...These women look suspiciously alike, eh? Some years ago, my then-boyfriend said that Drew Barrymore was the ultimate “woman’s woman.” His reasoning: She stars in romantic comedies (née...
...of the compliment. Robert Herbert, an American sociolinguist, published a fascinating study about the different ways men and women treat compliments that illuminated some of my experiences around complimenting women...
...Will Barnet Woman and Cats (1962) via Smithsonian Gentle women and wild animals are linked in myth and fable, fashion photography and pornography, pulp art and fine art;...
...students, as a threat to education, to free speech, to civilization, even to life itself. In speaking against students, these speech acts also speak for more or less explicitly articulated...
...standoffish. It is funny growing up under a free-market dictatorship masked as business as usual. A child cannot be too different, and the education system drills conformity like clockwork. Activist...
...clinical research was essential in establishing protocols for sexual education based on evidence. After recording a wide variation in the length of women's menstrual cycles, for example, Stone argued that...
...as president of the Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino (Brazilian Federation for Feminine Progress, FBPF). After Brazilian women achieved the vote in 1932, Lutz became one of the first women...
...always been empire. CUNNING, charismatic and sexually appealing--la Malinche of Mexico has been vilified in the historical record. She was one of the twenty slave women given by the...
...of mistress to...”?) But there’s a wealth of research looking at other intersections of appearance and infidelity. Some of the more interesting findings: 1) Women reported feeling more threatened when...