Tag Archives: Feminism

“Finding Mr. Right”

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Abigail

“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 →

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“Submission”

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Abigail

James Baldwin wrote a novel, Giovanni’s Room, ostensibly about the coming out of a gay man and how he disappoints the woman in his life.  Baldwin said the book was really about “the crucial lack of sexual authority in the … Continue reading →

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