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New book on women in war?

July 9, 2007 in Iraq, gender, war dead | No comments

I’m posting this video because I thought Women and War might find it interesting, and I think I’ll pick this up myself. Band of Sisters is a new book by Kirsten Holmstedt on female combatants in the Iraq War.

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x like a girl; Or, don’t ever be sorry

June 18, 2007 in Althusser, Girlfight, Iris Young, Madonna, Michelle Rodriguez, apology, body image, gender, gender violence, girlpowering, interpellation, martial arts, nature:culture, passing, race, women's boxing | 1 comment

Christina Olivares has a pretty fabulous post over at Cypher&Syllable titled “On Boxing,” in which she takes us through an afternoon as a novice boxer. Her post got me thinking about my class on girlpower just this past semester, and how I would go on these tangents about how boxing, like many other contact sports, fundamentally affects women and girls’ relationship to their bodies, and how transformative that can be. Such activities change one’s relationship to one’s body because it makes more opportunities for being experience the self as a subject rather than as an object, as able to make and take blows– rather than only subjected to blows.

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Maya Angelou endorses Clinton

June 14, 2007 in Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou, gender, politics, race | 2 comments

I caught this over at Jack and Jill Politics. It looks like the Hilary Clinton campaign has released a video of the poet Maya Angelou officially endorsing Clinton’s candidacy. (It’s after the jump.)

The video is so interesting, as it uses Angelou’s blackness to authenticate Clinton’s femininity, and by some kind of metaphysical extension, her integrity as a candidate. Mainly consisting of images voiced over by Angelou, Read the rest of this entry »

“all lesbians are sneaky”

April 11, 2007 in gender, hip-hop, lgbt, performing identity | No comments

Chloé A. Hilliard has an interesting article over at the Village Voice, subheaded “Young lesbians in Brooklyn find that a thug’s life gets them more women.”From one woman’s hypermasculine assertion that “all lesbians are sneaky,” to Read the rest of this entry »

Branching out to the UK

April 3, 2007 in feminism, gender | No comments

“Feminism Makes You Sick”

Here’s a post I just recently came across while clicking around “girlpower” links on Technorati. It’s off a UK blog called Mind the Gap.

The post discusses a recent article by Zoe Williams at the Guardian, which you will also find in my del.icio.us links on the left.

You might also want to check out some of the other articles in the Guardian’s “Special Report: Gender Issues,” where there are some pretty interesting articles relevant to your own work.

People interested in men’s issues might find this Lucy Ward article particularly interesting (and, oh!, by the way a simpatico blog at The Valley Advocate: hi Hayley!).

Women and War and others so inclined might find this Mary Riddell article of interest, as well as this post women in the miltary over at the f word blog.

And… here’s a Jacky Fleming post for you, Drawing Women!

Whew! That’s enough UK for the day!