deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2008 | women, sex, news, culture, US
we read this book for my book club - really interesting reading about the ascendency of the "girls gone wild" culture in the US and how that relates (or doesnt) to feminism. This article does a good job of summarizing the complex forces behind the rise of the"not that innocent" phenomena.
Quoted: Embracing a caricaturish sexuality, women are confusing erotic power with real-world power, says Ariel Levy.
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 10 2008 | women, war, sarah palin, politics, election, US
Pissed about Palin
Quoted: McCain's running mate is a Christian Stepford wife in a sexy librarian costume. Women, it's time to get furious.
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2008 | women, health, environment
interesting.
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 01 2008 | women, football
A girlish, non-football loving perspective on the big game
Quoted: With Super Bowl Sunday looming, football pundits worldwide are typing their fingers to the bone predicting who will step up, who will choke, and which commercials will be the most buzz-worthy. Sure, football is a group sport and there's no ...
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 11 2007 | women, books, news, Nobel Prizes
Quoted: The Swedish Academy praised the 87-year-old author for her “skepticism, fire and visionary power.”
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 11 2007 | history, science, women, lectures, UW, Seattle
4 lectures left in the UW graduate lecture series.
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2007 | books, women, photographs, cultures
A co-worker recommended this photography book featuring people of indigenous cultures. Proceeds benefit CARE's international work to assist those in need.
Quoted: Phil Borges People of Indigenous Cultures - Photography Books Prints - Phil Borges has lived with and documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his work, he strives to create a heightened understanding of the issues faced by people in the developing world.
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 18 2007 | women, nature, outdoors, hiking, snowshoeing
This is a group that split off from being a program of Passages Northwest to it's own nonprofit. It's a great group that is for women to share outdoor adventures together.
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 24 2007 | news, women, girls gone wild, fines, sleeze
This guy is sleezy. I'm glad he got fined. It's one thing to film consenting adults but it's another to knowingly take advantage of drunk minors.
- deborealis | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 16 2007 | women, census, news
interesting.
Quoted: For what experts say is probably the first time, more U.S. women are living without a husband than with one.
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