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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Once you remove the pixie dust of female camaraderie, contemporary New York emerges as an essentially pre-feminist society in which the courtship rituals are strikingly similar to those depicted in the novels of Jane Austen. Women are second-class cit…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingHappiness in a Society of Individuals”The predictions of the ‘end of ideology’ that were rife and widely accepted twenty to thirty years ago do not seem to have come true. What we are witnessing, rather, is a curious twist in the idea of ‘ideology’: in…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In the final stretch of the primary season, she [Senator Hillary Clinton] seems to have stepped across an unstated gender divide, transforming herself from referee to contender. What’s more, she seems to have taken to her new role with a Thelma-lik…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Last year, one of my friends asked pairs of strangers in a bookstore to pick out their favorite books, which he then purchased so they could exchange them. My brother gave his hundred to a friend so he could make the most “tricked out guitar pedal in …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“ONE OF New York’s primary sources of pride, for at least a century, has been its superabundance of small book, music, and art shops, which have done so much to keep the city’s cultural life close to the street. These little palaces of culture have…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Everyone loves the idea of the libraries: they are the “envy of the world”. The many endowed by Andrew Carnegie at the turn of the century have frequently been cited as the inspirational and practical source of both culture and education for many, and…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Torn between the need to cuddle and the call of the wild, men no longer know what their role is. No one advocates a return to the sweat lodges, bonfire dancing, and drumming of the Robert Bly wild-man retreats popular in the mid-90s, but male-bonding …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingJillFilopivic: One issue you tackle a lot is the feminist compromise — how far feminists can or should bend to a patriarchal system in order to just get through their lives, and where feminists should draw the line. The same arguments spring up in the…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWasn’t the collapse of communism supposed to open up all kinds of freedoms, including greater freedom for women? What happened?Agnieszka Graff: The word used in a lot of gender research in Eastern Europe after 1989 is “retraditionalization.” As c…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingK-Heads & K-Cramps”The K-hole has been described as an endless dimension to explore, and that’s exactly what it is. Space, time and language either have no meaning or become ridiculously distorted. It can seem as if you are travelling through time …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“It’s a dilemma many parent bloggers have begun to confront: Is it ethical to blog about my children? The attendant questions range from issues of safety - whether to use a child’s real name or post photos - to more abstract quandaries: At what point d…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Humans have always migrated and travelled, without necessarily living nomadic lives. The nomadism now emerging is different from, and involves much more than, merely making journeys. A modern nomad is as likely to be a teenager in Oslo, Tokyo or subur…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Science is becoming ever more specialized; technology is increasingly a series of black boxes, impenetrable to but a few. Americans’ poor science literacy means that science and technology exist in a walled garden, a geek ghetto. We are a technocracy …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“A graduate of Barnard, and an A.B.D. in 18th-century English literature from Columbia, Erica Jong began her literary career as a poet, but it was Fear of Flying that made her famous, and that novel, as the critic Lisa Marie Hogeland has said in Femini…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“When I was a teenager, I used to have a neat sort of formula for writing songs. It worked over and over, and I got about 60 songs out of it. Now it doesn’t work so well, and I am forced to write in all different ways. But what worked for so long was…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to mention the countless women who came before me and were not allowed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The total collapse of Gabriel Torres’s life and career has distressed the few people in the AIDS Establishment aware of his plight. “It’s just one of the biggest tragedies I’ve ever seen. This is a guy who had absolutely everything going for h…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“There was a moment - 1968 to 1975, let’s say - when it seemed that everything would change for women. We were studied, promoted, advanced like a trendy minority. Then came the backlash. “Is feminism dead?” screamed the cover of Time magazine. We were …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I don’t write fantasy fiction simply to provide a trap-door from reality. For me, the genre is as much about the world around us as EastEnders.But instead of coming slap-bang up against it, fantasy charts the unconscious hopes and aspirati…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In many films, the plot turns on Bette Davis’s desirability - which means her plausibility. It’s a problem all actresses face: some escape by playing celestial or androgynous figures; others collude and play the coquette. But Davis was alone in lettin…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Thanks to prison, I have completed the initial two of five volumes of Continue to Live, my autobiographical novel. Thanks to prison, I have learned to play the flute, employing its music to call on the spirits of the ancient masters and console myself…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Whether it is fear or rage that lurks in the heart of design’s new infatuation with killer style is hard to call. What is clear is that design and decor are – despite popular assumption – far from removed from the struggles of contemporary politi…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In my whole political life I have never seen a male candidate whose clothes and hair are discussed” President Michelle Bachelet said yesterday in London. “There is a machismo, and a sexism, and it is not just in Latin America … If a woman talks hard…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Before 1965, King was upbeat and bright, his belief in white America’s ability to change by moral suasion resilient and durable. That is the leader we have come to know during annual King commemorations. After 1965, King was darker and angrier; he gre…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingIs It About You?”And why my intense irritation at this persistent, boring and inane insistence that fiction must be autobiographical? Because it reduces the imagination to material for journalism; it takes an axe to fiction. Such journalism tells me of…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingIs It About You?”And why my intense irritation at this persistent, boring and inane insistence that fiction must be autobiographical? Because it reduces the imagination to material for journalism; it takes an axe to fiction. Such journalism tells me of…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingReconstructive Memory & Source Monitoring”Retrieving something from memory is a reconstructive process. An episode in memory is not stored in one place, but instead, features of the episode are stored all over the brain. Such features might include…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn’t apply to the poor. When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we s…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“That picture of a vengeful God excoriating humanity for the tiniest transgressions has largely disappeared; love is once again seen as a more powerful persuader than fear. But something curious has happened to sin: in a matter of decades it has droppe…
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