Virginia Woolf on gender values
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I have been thinking about motherhood. Shocker, right? Particularly about feminism and motherhood. About the expectations I had while growing up and after getting married, and about the reality of my life after giving birth to my first child. Are…
New year, old thoughts
Happy New Year, everyone (one?)! 2013. It already looks like it’s going to be a very full and interesting year. I am working on the print edition of Spell of Blindness and hoping to make that available really soon (as…
You want to be taken seriously as a writer? Then be(have like) a man!
This article published on the website of the National Book Critics Circle is so disturbing that I have a hard time rereading it even if it was just to order my thoughts for a rebuttal. It makes me very upset and while…
The Female Advantage, by Sally Helgesen
I finally finished this book that I have been reading for a while. It is not a bad book, but it lost my interest a few times throughout. That is maybe because I have very little tolerance for “business talk”…
The Beauty Myth, by NAOMI WOLF
Unlike many other books, I find it difficult to review this one. I have mixed emotions about it and it's somehow become very important to me. Obviously, I am a little late in reading it--it was first published in 1991, so almost two decades ago. I am sorry to say, however, that not many things have changed since that time and the book is still, (and horrifically in many ways) accurate and current.