Category: femme
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Faint Praise.
I’m posting this as I leave for a wedding. As I depart, bogey perversity insists I ask you, Who is Don Draper? This was the question that inspired me to read Barbara Ehrenreich’s The Hearts of Men. Don Draper, enigmatic and alone, is the postmodern man from your worst fantasy. Still predatory, no longer derogatory. This…
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The Mantle of the Vicious Bitch
I’ve been in television hibernation this past month, and it took the centenary of women’s day to draw me out. I’ve always been iffy on the subject of women’s day — why, precisely, are we celebrating half of humanity? I guess any publicity- look, we exist- is better than none. Here I am. Watch me…
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Lady Dragon.
This is the second of the mylaw.net articles on the American midterms. As usual, please head thither for links to the articles on which my analysis is based- I do believe in credit, but setting up two sets of hyperlinks is my idea of too much work. Unless I have directly quoted from the article,…
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Robbing Women and Robing Brides
I was miserably sick this past week, for those of you who noticed the blog silence. Antibiotics are being consumed, the appetite is yet to revive, but migraines and blistered eyes no longer conspire to keep the laptop and I at odds. I even read a book last night and it wasn’t shady bed reading.…
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The Step Between.
“When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” The life and times of the person Cromwell. Umberto Eco tells us there is a fate that links the historical novel to medieval topics. He explains that this is because many of our contemporary conflicts can be traced to the tumultuous, and ongoing, break…