education
What Happened to Home Economics?: The Rise and Fall of a Contested Discipline
The rise of home economics as a discipline was closely linked with the push to make higher education available to female students.
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On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup
Good morning! Here’s all the feminist news on our radar this fine Friday.
• We all know that women are capable of writing about anything. Why is it, Roxane Gay wonders, that anything beyond... Read more »
On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
It’s Monday! Here’s all the feminist news on my radar from over the weekend.
• “Who am I to judge?” says the Pope, in reference to gay priests. Will... Read more »
Academia's Anti-Fat Problem.
“Dear obese PhD applicants: if you don’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth”
That tweet from... Read more »
The Virtues of Watching Feminist Porn With Strangers
Watching porn in an auditorium filled with people helped me take a critical look at my sexuality.
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"Seeing Like a Feminist" Book Should Be Required College Reading.
Some books are easy to read, yet stay with you long after you’ve finished the last chapter. Nivedita Menon’s Seeing Like a Feminist (Penguin/Zubaan, 2012) is a timely work that explains a... Read more »
My Christian College "Professor of the Year" Just Compared Being Queer to Being Racist
Being queer at a private Christian school, I thought I’d heard homosexuality compared to just about everything. But I was caught off guard by the recent remarks of Dr. Erik Thoennes, a professor at my alma mater, Southern California’s Biola University. At a panel discussion... Read more »
A 15-Year-Old's Vision of Public School Dystopia
Last week, I looked at how Malinda Lo and Marie Lu, adult Asian-American authors, wrote race and gender into their worlds. In this... Read more »
Why Are There So Few Female College Presidents?
Women make up a majority of college students, but at the top of the academic ladder, the percentage of women wanes: only 26 percent of college presidents are female. Why is this?
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