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Jun 22
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All?
Anne-Marie Slaughter,the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and was formerly Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and director of policy planning at the State Department has penned a new essay in the Atlantic that begins with the following quote: “It’s time …
Mar 19
Sex, Lies, and Media
CNN recently posted a piece on the new wave of activists challenging notions of beauty. Check it out here.
Mar 09
Sexual Counter-Revolution?
Historian Nancy L. Cohen was the guest on On Point with Tom Ashbrook yesterday. She engaged in a lively discussion about the current controversies surrounding women’s reproductive health access and a broader anti-sex, “traditional family values” oriented segment of our population. Her new book offers a compelling argument that this counter-revolution has been building steam …
Feb 28
Olympics Bound
Sixteen year old Claressa Fields is a fighter- literally. She is striving to be one of the elite few who make the U.S. squad as female boxers step into the ring to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics for the first time. Listen to the NPR radio magazine story on her life and boxing career here.
Feb 17
Thinking Allowed
A recent episode of the BBC sociology program Thinking Allowed featured interesting new research on masculinity. “Vomiting, urinating openly, dressing up as women and public nudity – some of the features of the Stag Tour which show a new kind of masculinity, claims new research from Thomas Thurnell-Read. He tells Laurie that far from the …
Feb 14
What is going on?
Just as I am adjusting to the fact that we are once again discussing whether all women should have access to affordable birth control I am confronted by debates surrounding family and intimate partner violence I thought long dead. As presented here on the Diane Rehm show on NPR this week, conservatives are challenging the …
Feb 08
Next Fall
Come see Next Fall February 8 through the 11 7pm, matinee February 12 at 3 Tickets are $5 cash and are sold only at the door. ALL proceeds will go the ‘It Gets Better’ Foundation. ♥ Hope to see you there!!!!! ‘Next Fall’ is a Tony Nominated play by Geoffrey Nauffts. The play revolves around …
Feb 08
Meryl Streep
Academy Award winning actor Meryl Streep was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air this week. In the interview she discusses her career, being a woman “of a certain age” in the industry, and the way in which straight men interact with and perceive films with female central characters. It is really worth a listen.
Jan 30
The Masculine Appeal of Ron Paul
Just a quick link to a great discussion at the Sociological Images blog about the way in which Ron Paul’s campaign plays on masculine themes. Could this explain why he has so much more support among men than women?
Jan 20
Queering the Classic Music World
Hahn-Bin, the 23-year-old graduate of Julliard and protégé of the eminent violinist Itzhak Perlman, wants to wake up the sleeping world of classical music with his own blend of music, fashion, and stage presence. He told the New York Times, “I have always been a performance artist who sings through the violin.” His boundary crossing …