Women in Business: Alexa von Tobel
I discovered Alexa von Tobel, founder of the financial planning startup LearnVest via a New York Times article (and accompanying video) in their Corner Office feature. In addition to content around Alexa’s story (she dropped out of Harvard Business School at the age of 25 to found her company), several threads …
Continue ReadingEdging in to the Debate: Thoughts on Lean In
I had to read it to see what all of the hype was about. How could I not, when the book was being compared to seminal feminist works from decades ago? So I did. Personally, my reaction was a mixture of repulsion and anxiety. Statistic by statistic, Sandberg poked at …
Continue ReadingReview: Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me
“There had to be more than one way to be a woman and if there was more than one way, chances were there were many.” – Patricia Volk, Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me Patricia Volk’s new memoir, Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me is a light-hearted examination of her …
Continue ReadingSonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
They were pictures like these that caught my attention as I clicked through a slideshow of images on the NPR site one morning. Weathered photographs of a hispanic couple and small child, then of a lanky teenager, a young college age woman standing against a backdrop of canyons, later a …
Continue ReadingAn Evening With Azar Nafisi
A little less than a year ago, I read, first, Lolita by Nabokov and then Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a memoir set in the times of the Iranian revolution and loosely structured as a series of anecdotes that focus primarily on the formation …
Continue ReadingInitial Response: The Handmaid’s Tale
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am participating in a city wide read and discussion of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. I just finished the book, and next week I will begin attending public lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a presentation by Margaret Atwood herself. Needless to …
Continue ReadingIKEA Removes Women from its Saudi Catalog
According to an article I read this morning on NBC (and confirmed by several other news sources), IKEA chose to cater to the Saudi request to completely remove women from its Saudi catalog. I find this news very disturbing. This juxtaposition of the two catalog photographs bothers me greatly. One …
Continue ReadingPBS Special Presentation: Half the Sky
PBS’s Independent Lens series is going to be showing a special presentation of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Based on the book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the presentation follows the lives of women in 10 different countries and features celebrity activists. The presentation …
Continue ReadingFilm Series: Stairs to No End
My journey to animated shorts began with the discovery of the French animated short “In Between” posted on a blog I follow witches can be right. “In Between” is a short film centered on the protagonist’s struggle with her own shyness, which takes on the physical form of a strangely …
Continue ReadingSexism in Southern Churches, Jimmy Carter’s Remarks, and a Scrap of Papyrus
Growing up in the South and attending a church at a small, southern, Protestant denomination, I grew up amidst the sounds of acapella singing and hell-fire preaching, my ears filled with a cacophony of sentiments such as: Women are the cause of the downfall of men (and all humanity) Women …
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- Posted on October 10, 2012
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- Posted on October 5, 2012
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- Posted on October 1, 2012
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- Posted on September 28, 2012
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- Posted on September 26, 2012
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- Posted on September 21, 2012
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