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
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Working Through Political Change
Happy Easter, a good pagan and Christian holiday signifying rebirth, something I take very metaphorically. Barack Obama’s speech last Tuesday on race could be read in this light as calling for a renewal of the American ideal — a renewal that will require very uncomfortable work: “working through” as a nation the trauma of racism.… Continue reading Working Through Political Change
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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