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Where Women Gather, Trouble Follows: Letting Off Steam At The University Of...
When you were flying over Ohio last week, did you see a big cloud over Toledo? That was a bunch of steamed up faculty! The Toledo Blade reports a wholesale restructuring of the University of Toledo...
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Celebrating The Greatest Generation (Of Women)
In case you didn’t know it, today is Rosie the Riveter’s 68th birthday. Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Samuel Redman is celebrating on The Berkeley Blog with a piece just published today, “Norman...
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What Kind of Times are These?
Anonymous, Adrienne Rich (c. 1975), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62-103575Today’s guest blogger, Jennifer Finney Boylan, is professor of English at Colby College. She is the author of 13...
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We Don’t Need Another Hero: One Woman’s Disabled History
Harilyn Rousso, Don’t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013), 224 pp., paper $24.95. From its title onward, New York activist Harilyn...
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What A World Without Women’s Studies Looked Like
Before women’s studies, these signs were invisible. Mariam Chamberlain, one of the founding mothers of women’s studies, died last week at the age of 94. A Ph.D. in economics, as a program officer at...
View ArticleLabour MP Glenda Jackson Leans In On Margaret Thatcher
In the midst of the gauzy tributes to Margaret Thatcher, Glenda Jackson kicks it in the House of Commons. Imagine if any United States politician had possessed the onions to deliver a similar summary...
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Harvard Housekeepers Strike, Rally
If you remember this one, you are as old as me. Citing “pain and sometimes life-altering injuries” acquired while working at the Harvard-owned Doubletree in Allston, housekeepers went out on strike...
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