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“Writing”
“Writing” I grew up among people whose most-oft-voiced concern was whether they would get their book, or next book, written. Without the book, the life-worth dwindled down to a small pile of ash, as my child’s mind pictured it. It … Continue reading
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“Finding Mr. Right”
“Finding Mr. Right” To marry off Abigail was never a cinch. My undergraduate years passed in a women’s college to which I commuted from a home that interested me more than my professors did, much less the callow young male … Continue reading
Posted in culture, desire, erotic life, femininity, feminism, gender balance, history of ideas, masculinity, philosophy, political, psychology, the examined life, the problematic of woman
Tagged American woman, Chronicle of Higher Education, female friendship, Feminism, Feminity, Finding Mr. Right, Gender, gender roles, Long-distance calling, love, Marriage, Masculinity, Mr. Right, New York City, Paris, philosophy, relationships, Romance, Sydney, Western Wall
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“Invisibility”
Toulouse-Lautrec, ‘Ce qui dit la pluie’. “Invisibility” Invisibility can signal erasure. Qanta Ahmed’s In the Land of Invisible Women, subtitled A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, describes shopping for the author’s first abbayah (burqa), “a flowing robe that … Continue reading
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Tagged abbayah, American woman, androgyny, Art, Art Student's League, burqa, Chinese art, Henry Adams, In the Land of Invisible Women, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, invisibility, New York, New York City, orthodox, orthodox women, philosophy, Qanta Ahmed, Saudi Arabia, Toulouse-Lautrec, United States, Venus
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