Archive for the tag 'feminism'

Sep 16 2006

“Fuck you, Ann Althouse”

I agree with zuzu.

Bill Clinton with a group of bloggersBefore you click over and read what zuzu has to say (which also gives more of a context to this particular argument), take a look at this picture, specifically the brunette standing directly in front of Bill…

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Sep 13 2006

A high-heeled step in the right direction

Everyone’s been saying for years that the fashion industry is literally sick with anorexic models. But apparently ‘everyone’ was until now a small enough subset of people that nothing was done about it besides maybe a couple of crafty marketing…

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May 18 2006

Dirty filthy commie Europeans and their high standard of living

zuzu at Feministe has a great little piece noting Western Europe’s generally open attitude towards sex and its (surprise!) considerably lower STD/abortion/teen pregnancy rate as a result.

Instead, here in this country, there are certain groups who obsessively focus on the…

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Apr 22 2006

It is al another than it semeth: Chaucer and the Self-Other Binary

Get the PDF: revised 1 May 2007

“Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree.” So says…

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Jun 21 2005

The Great Waste Land: Sexual Normativity in Two Works of Modernism

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[get the PDF] [updated 25 January 2006]

The advent of literary Modernism in the early 20th century fueled a larger cultural movement. By the 1920s, women across the globe were winning the right to vote and work as the cult of…

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