transgendering

I just came across two stories relevant to some stuff that’s come up in girlpower.

The first story, from Grady Hendrix at Slate, is about Tarantino and Rodriguez’s Grindhouse. Hendrix takes up a simple question: why would anyone bring grindhouse or exploitation films back? The author could use more concise definitions–”grindhouse” and “exploitation” aren’t quite synonyms, but it’s still worth looking at. (And there are some pretty random conjectures in the comments section at the bottom of the article.) This article is interesting for genre/high and low culture questions in general, and also relevant to some of the conversations we had about Doris Wishman’s Bad Girls Go to Hell.

The second story ties to our brief conversation on Thursday about women’s colleges and transgendering questions. This story, by Adrian Brune at the Boston Globe, takes as its example the experiences of a transgendered student at Mt. Holyoke.