So I’m thinking about books and research, as I’m driving back home from turning in yet another handful of library books, several of which were…
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“Toward A Queer Ecofeminism” by Greta Gaard
The following is a quick review of an article read for the Ecofeminism class in which I am a TA — yay! I’d like to…
Continue ReadingClearing the decks to write
Finally had a bit of a breakthrough on my dissertation proposal — hallelujah! Working now on getting a dissertation committee Chair, and figuring out all…
Continue ReadingThe unexamined dissertation: not worth writing?
As some who read my blog may know already, I’m currently struggling with the process of writing my dissertation proposal. Despite writing being one of…
Continue ReadingSweet & sour emotions
Being a student on a very tight budget, I am particularly fond of restaurants with cards that give you a free meal after a certain…
Continue ReadingA Paean to the Librarian
My dissertation proposal research continues apace – sometimes stutteringly slowly, other times with a swiftness and surety which reassures me that I’m on the right…
Continue ReadingWoman in the Shaman’s Body
The apparently overwhelmingly powerful need to control women which some men appear to have is painfully expressed yet again in a form which is recorded…
Continue ReadingExploring power with rather than power over
In the same year as Ely & Meyerson’s amazing article regarding the malleability of masculinity, Euro-American columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and Asian-American lecturer and business…
Continue ReadingPoetry is Not A Luxury & Mighty Be Our Powers
Closely examining our matrifocal past and present offers a solid basis from which to theorize a possible healthier future — one not damagingly based in…
Continue ReadingFascinatingly more on matrifocal societies
Both Sanday (reviewed by me here and here) and Du are anthropologically trained ethnographers researching indigenous societies. As previously noted, their work offers explicit epistemological…
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