Starting again

Hello all, I've started the blog again on wordpress, this time with a better format.  I was uncomfortable having my full name on the site, as on the old blog, and also thought the title, "feminism in our time," was extremely dull.  I started thinking about the titles of great feminist books, and very quickly …

Writing

Well, this is a relief.  I've had two good days in touch with my so-called real self: the scholar-writer person. I've been wondering about this particular persona for a while, since she's been so out of touch.  Did she still live, after all this time?  Could we still talk, hang out?  Would it feel the …

Fishing for Feminists

I snapped this photo of a Toronto fisherwoman  a couple of years ago.  Checking the nets was clearly her job, her livelihood, but I like to think that she's fishing for all of us, fishing for freedom..... You know, I find it ironic and surprising to be announcing myself to the world as a Pittsburgh …

International Women’s Day

3/8/10 Today, March 8, I am blogging in commemoration of International Women's Day.  The great German socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin is credited for having invented the memorial as part of her fight for women's suffrage and for better working conditions for women and men everywhere. The socialist movement had always been an international campaign, part …

The Rapists at College

The commonplace that men who rape women are misogynists bears repeating. A recent study by psychologist David Lisak shows that college rapists are overwhelmingly repeat offenders (9 out of 10) who deliberately seek out vulnerable women, especially women who have been drinking. "When compared to men who do not rape," Lisak observes, "these undetected rapists …