I am honored. I am mystified. And I am amused. I have just discovered that this blog has been listed by ZenCollegeLife as the fifth best philosophy blog out there. Surely that’s overblown, especially given my sporadic posting. But the best part is the description: 5. Gone Public – Noelle McAfee is an associate professor… Continue reading The Sex of the Text
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The Hillary Lesson
In today’s New York Times, Peggy Orenstein writes an important piece about what “The Hillary Lesson” is for our daughters: One recent morning, as my 4-year-old daughter and I strolled to our favorite diner, she pointed to a bumper sticker plastered on a mailbox. A yellow, viraginous caricature of Hillary Clinton leered out from a… Continue reading The Hillary Lesson
Symposium on “Two Feminisms”
An article of mine that I wrote a few years ago, “Two Feminisms,” found a new life as the subject of the fall symposium of the online journal, Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy. Every season the editors pick an article for a symposium and also four scholars to critique it. Then the author has… Continue reading Symposium on “Two Feminisms”
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