It’s that time of year…

For shameless self-promotion! So dear readers, you may want to know some of the wonderous ways you can flex your feminist activist muscles on campus with like-minded people. You may wonder how we got this gig at the blog! You too can be a blogger! Or you could look into contributing or working on JMU’s feminist zine Sister […]

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In Search of Mama Dick: Where Are The Mothers In Literature?

In my “Major Authors: Women Writers from 1900 to 1950” class last Tuesday morning the professor raised an important question: Where, in any major works of fiction (particularly American fiction) were mothers? After much deliberation, awkward silence and head scratching; the class concluded that mothers were notoriously absent from major works of literature. Amazingly, the one […]

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I Hate To Be An Alarmist, But…

Read this. Sound crazy and not something that would happen in America, where Roe V. Wade constantly protects a woman’s right to choose? I often hear these arguments that consist of “Women all around the world have it worse.” Hell, as one my professors pointed out in class the other day: the media uses the Middle East […]

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