the feminist librarian

It's always slightly embarrassing to admit you've requested an advance review copy of a book mostly to make fun of it and/or get a...

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

Prominent anti-marriage-equality theorist David Blankenhorn (a key expert for the supporters of Prop 8 in California, author  The Future of ...

See also:  intro ,  ch 1 ,  ch 2-3 ,  ch 4-5 , ch 6-7 , ch 8-10 , ch 11 . Finally! The chapter you've all been waiting for (I know!...

Modern-day campaigns for civil rights and equal citizenship for queer folks tend to conjure up a progressive trajectory from exclusion to ...

Ever since I heard about Amy Schalet's research and her forthcoming book,  Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex  ...

Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World , edited by Maggie Parke and Natalie Wilson (McFarl...

1) We're home on the couch with the cat curled up between us. Geraldine was two parts grateful we were back and one part super-pissed we...

After hearing Nancy L. Cohen interviewed by Amanda Marcotte recently on the RhRealityCheck podcast , I requested her most recent book, De...

whipping girl? Note:  This is part three of my series of posts related to a screening of  The Price of Pleasure  and discussion about po...