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Purity & Love

February 14, 2014

“If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.”

So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Parenting|| Reading the Word|| Word in the World
Tagged With: Gender, Holidays, Marriage, Parenting, Psychology, Sex, Valentine's Day, Virtue
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So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

September 3, 2008

W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…” Problems change, but race is still a problem. And […]

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Shelved with: Mind & Society
Tagged With: Alaska, Civility, Election 2008, Gender, John McCain, Politics, Race, Republicans, Richard Harwood, Sarah Palin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Women
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The Woman, the Problem, the Dream…and the Hope?

September 2, 2008

Some of our struggles: from Sojurner Truth, who asks, “Ain’t I a Woman?” From W.E.B. Du Bois, who asks, “How does it feel to be a Problem?” From Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks, “Can we bank on this dream?” And from Barack Obama, who claims that, “Yes, we can.”

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Alice Walker, America, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Community, Drew Hansen, Gender, Jr., Juan Galis-Menendez, Martin Luther King, Race, Rhetoric, Sojurner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Women
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Male and Female: Equal After All

August 2, 2008

Cecilia Ford’s investigations into the power of conversation for her new book, Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace Meetings, are reviewed here: Researcher finds that women are speaking up; and Janet Hyde, author of Half the Human Experience, has published research that finds no gender differences in math performance.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Mathematics|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Boys, Cecilia Ford, Conversation, Gender, Girls, Janet Hyde, Math, Power, Science, Stereotypes, Testing
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She Could Be President of the United States of America

July 5, 2008

Review of Catherine Thimmesh and Douglas B. Jones’s Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Biography, Careers, Gender, Girls, Politics, Presidents, Reviews
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