the feminist librarian

Last week I reviewed Sarah Schulman's Ties That Bind  which explored from a very personal perspective the ravages of familial homobig...

Me, footnote hopping. The story of my life. I found Sarah Schulman's Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences  (New ...

I've been on a kick lately reading about fanfiction and fandom -- it's what with that addictive habit of footnote mining we're...

Because the Brookline Public Library is awesome (they even have an awesome box ... shaped like a TARDIS!) someone on the staff ordered a ...

Footnote mining from Paying for the Party , I ordered Patrick Carr and Maria Kefelas'  Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain...

Amanda Hess at Slate recently reminded me that I had meant to read Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton's longitudinal, ethno...

I'm back in encyclopedia entry writing mode this month, and one of the subjects I volunteered to tackle was the life and work of Phyll...

It's been awhile, what with one thing and another, since I actually did a book review post. I'm hoping to get at least one per wee...

The latest issue of NEHA New s (PDF)   arrived in the post earlier this week. Actually, four copies arrived because for some reason Hanna ...

On our drive to Michigan, I kept thinking about what I could do besides be here with my grandmother, as we gathered to help her through the ...

Montague Bookmill, interior (December 2012) I'm in the final stages of writing my conference paper, a week behind my self-imposed de...

I read Michael Hiltzik'a The New Deal: A Modern History (Free Press, 2011) and Sasha Abramsky's The American Way of Poverty: How ...

I was going to write a joint book review this weekend of The American Way of Poverty  and The New Deal: A Modern History , both of which I...

Now that Hanna and I are new-apartment-hunting in earnest, my situational interest in the history of Boston's development has come t...

Here's a peek at the books I read  between mid-November  and the end of the year. Exceeding my own expectations of finishing 2013 rou...

While we were snowbound in Michigan, I had time to do quite a bit of reading. Two of the titles I read were  A Woman Like That: Lesbian an...

Yesterday, in an attempt to re-boot the vacation we're inadvertently having, Hanna and I took a small road-trip to South Haven, Michigan...