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The Herstorian - DrBon
Cheerful mini-lectures from the brainy dyke professor.
  • Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor (0 Comments)
  • February 28, 2008, 3:00 PM
  • O, apologies aplenty for my long silence! But the herstorian has won a book contract at last, after quite a few years since the last one came out, and a book contract means joy, rapture, recognition, and a bellyful of sudden extra work. I’ve spent the weeks since January 1 bent over two hundred pages of manuscript, editing out anything that might be inaccurate, adding in references to all my pals ...
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  • Tikkun Olam - Repairing the World (1 Comments)
  • November 29, 2007, 1:25 PM
  • I spend a huge amount of time explaining what I do and why I do it. Strangers who ask about my work often have strong reactions to the idea that being a women’s studies professor is a legitimate job. “Why don’t we have men’s studies?” And so on. But my actual loved ones aren’t much better. Why am I not tenured? If I’m so smart, why aren’t I rich? That sort of thing. The fact is, I entered academic...
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  • Don't Eat The Graham Crackers (0 Comments)
  • October 22, 2007, 12:50 PM
  • The other day I had the opportunity to see a truly moving new documentary, “For the Bible Tells Me So,” as part of D.C.’s gay and lesbian filmfest, Reel Affirmations. The film explores five different Christian evangelical families coming to terms with their gay or lesbian children (featuring political candidate Dick Gephardt’s stunning lesbian daughter, Chrissy Gephardt, and her role as an out fam...
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  • Hair Hair Everywhere (0 Comments)
  • September 27, 2007, 5:01 PM
  • Many Olivia travelers had the opportunity to travel to Egypt in the summer of 2000, and as a guest lecturer on that Mediterranean cruise I took plenty of questions about whether women had to or should wear headscarves as visitors to a Muslim country. Was obeying local etiquette the right thing to do? As lesbian feminists, weren’t we entitled to resist patriarchal traditions? Who started the whole ...
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  • A Few Thoughts on Women Leaders (1 Comments)
  • August 29, 2007, 12:00 AM
  • As the nation furiously debates whether a woman (Hillary) could be elected President, I’m about to start teaching my fall women’s history classes, where we routinely examine the role of female queens, Pharoahs and goddesses in every ancient society. Sooner or later, a student will raise her hand and point out that long before the terms women’s rights or feminism entered political speech, Queen Hat...
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