Lesson 2 (remembering previous thoughts on Linda Hirshman):
So what keeps the movement [Feminism --ed.] from realizing its demographic potential? First, it’s divided along lines so old that they feel like geological faults. Long before this campaign highlighted the divides of race, class and age, feminism was divided by race, class and age. As early as [...]
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What You Should Read Since I’m Not Writing
Published June 8th, 2008 in Feminism, Obligation, Poverty and Racism. 1 CommentOn Having Goals
Published January 24th, 2008 in E, Education, Obligation and Relationships. 20 CommentsWhen I was eighteen and pregnant, I went to my sister’s house for a long two week stay. It was reckoning time, time to make decisions about what I was going to do with the baby, what I was going to do with myself, and how I was going to steer my life after [...]
Promises I Can Keep: Elaborating On An Old Review
Published June 30th, 2007 in Feminism, Obligation, Relationships and Sex. 33 CommentsA couple of months ago (I’ve been sitting on this one due to time issues) Bitch Ph.D. reviewed a book on single motherhood called Promises I Can Keep. I haven’t read the book and can’t comment on that myself, but there were several things in her review that plucked the brainstrings. BPhD says:
The [...]
Why I Haven’t Left Yet
Published October 10th, 2006 in Consume, Education, Money, Obligation and Work. 25 CommentsJill has a fantastic post up on some article that derides my generation for having the audacity to want higher education and opportunity. Although the author of said article covers some of the reasons that this generation of young people are deep in debt, she nevertheless labels us “Generation Me,” students and recent graduates [...]
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