the feminist librarian

Photograph by Laura Wulf I had my annual physical last week, and for the first time in a couple of years I actually looked at the readin...

I've been seeing this statement coming through on my RSS and Twitter feed for the last few days, and have finally had a moment to sit do...

To: abross@npr.org From: feministlibrarian@gmail.com Re: Chelsea Manning Dear Ms. Bross, I am contacting you as a lifetime listener an...

Regular readers of this blog may remember that over the past year or so I've been haunting the conservative Family Scholars Blog hosted...

Warning: This is a rambling post full of thoughts in progress. My friend Molly is in the process of  writing a book about parenting-while-...

Diane De Young Associate Director of the Hope Fund Hope College PO Box 9000 Holland, MI 49424-9000 4 September 2012  Dear Ms. De You...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a pre-review review of Iris Krasnow's book The Secret Lives of Wives   (Gotham, 2011). From those not...

Gloria Steinem and two other editors of Ms. Magazine ca. 1970s As an historian, I spend a not-inconsiderable amount of time thinking ab...

On Christmas Eve, Hanna and I watched Holiday Inn , a 1942 Bing Crosby/Fred Astair/Irving Berlin vehicle that I've heard was a precursor...

Mark Kurlansky's book, Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (New York: Modern Library, 2006) does not ...

Today is the 12th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance , on which folks around the world take time to remember those who have...

shout and scream by Mindaugas Danys available at Flickr.com So this past weekend I was enjoying some stimulating, thoughtful conversati...

So after a weekend away from my RSS feeds, I finally got around, this morning, to reading conservative columnist Ross Douthat's second c...