Not a “women’s” issue

A post from Girlythoughts on the topic of rape to continue our theme from down below, but also to talk about another; … the coupling of anger or power with sexuality looks to me like a symptom of our culture’s, and most cultures’, messed up characterization of what it means to be masculine.  When sex [...]

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Great Women in History: Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry America‘s foremost black playwright and author of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930, in Chicago. In 1951, she joined Freedom magazine, a journal founded by Paul Robeson. She began work on A Raisin in the Sun and in 1957 read the first draft to publisher Philip Rose. [...]

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“It’s ‘just’ rape.”

“It’s ‘just’ rape.” That’s what one of the first year students said in my class today. “It’s ‘just’ rape.” Of course, this has a context, and in this context we were discussing Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved.” Our professor asked us to think about the dehumanizing indignities that were inflicted on the African-American characters. Several examples [...]

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Great Women in History: Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1652/1653), daughter of well-known Roman artist, Orazio Gentileschi (1563 – 1639), was one of the first women artists to achieve recognition in the male-dominated world of post-Renaissance art. In an era when female artists were limited to portrait painting and imitative poses, she was the first woman to paint major historical [...]

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