It was a hot midsummer day in Rome; I was leaving bright and early on a plane the next morning…flying off to a job I didn’t want that I couldn’t perform in my sneakers. I trolled the outdoor markets — need shoes, black shoes, gotta have shoes, gotta buy shoes. I had a pair in my hand (these ones [...]
Posts Tagged ‘jane austen’
Ode to my shoes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged feminism, hillary clinton, jane austen, murder, Plato, queen elizabeth I, Rome, shoes, tina fey, vancouver on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Battle of the Elizabeths: Bennett v. Lemon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural theory, Disney, feminism, jane austen, movies, nancy drew, Narnia, sci fi, shakespeare, superheroes, tv on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just wrote an entire note about how modern culture fosters relatively no positive female role models…and then I accidentally deleted it all. I’m not going to rant it again but I’ll give you the short version:
Boys are taught to band together; girls see each other as competition for the sparse female spots within the [...]
