I have daughters-in-law, granddaughters and many friends who see no use in the women’s movement; this is partly due to privilege, lack of information, and our discomfort with ideas that are presented as being controversial.
Blog Posts about Women and Feminism
Sweet Honey In The Rock: The Other Side of Victimization
These women were so large… so encompassing in their warmth and passion, even for their audience of white women, that I was stunned—this is the way we can all go, I thought, if we have the courage, we who are all hurt to some greater or lesser degree by the cruelties and injustices of this society.
The Gospel According to Nance
Nance, and her garden in the barren border of the trailhead parking lot, is another uplifting example of our ability to both create, and to hold on, to see possibilities in the sand…
A Vindication…
Mary Wollstonecraft’s argument is familiar, these days, and unheeded; we are still nursing, helping, filling in as we have been trained to do, sometimes paid, often not, and I reflect with discouragement that if we have not been formed genetically to perform these roles, centuries of training have stored these expectations in our bones.
The Manless World: Show Jumping
Somewhere along the way, women took over this sport, although there are still men at the highest levels.
Sometimes It Takes a While…
The number of produced plays written by women (although not necessarily directed by women) has inched up; we are still far from being represented as we should be on the stage but our efforts, over time, are bearing fruit.
Pussy Riot and the Threat to Women in the U.S. Today
We are perhaps naïve if we believe that women in the U. S. are free of danger, especially young women who are expected to belong to young men.
Breeding
The variety is endless, but the end result is the same: enormous fledglings crowding the adult bird out of the messy nest.
My Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships of any kind—even that sort involved in learning to sew on a button—depend on a bitter and prolonged deprivation of pleasure, a narrow and deep focus that will never allow for what we call a balanced life.
Birth: The Kentucky Foundation for Women
Women artists are always in danger of extinction; already low on the pay scale, often with too many children and no support, they can hardly be expected to devote their limited time and energy to becoming proficient professional poets, painters, sculptors…