Recently added articles from Femspec:
Getting the Mad People Out of My Attic: Not an Advertisement for Myself
Jan 01, 2007; ... Even failure is noble-if you keep going. Phil Couisineau, Once and Future Myths Even small and individual acts can bring about change, say Cindy Katz and Nancy Miller in their introduction to the latest Women's Studies Quarterly that focuses on activisms. Almost concurrent with ...
MEMOIR & NON-FICTION NARRATIVE: Growing Thick Skin
Jan 01, 2007; ... My sister often teases me that any personal conflict I confide in her can be resolved if I just plot it as a graph. As a kid, I used to plot up many things-not just as a part of homework assignments, but things like my weight and what I wore to school each day. I was monitoring this as part of ...
Derailed but Not Defeated
Jan 01, 2007; ... On the night before I began the first draft of this essay, I dreamed that I was cleaning out my first faculty office. It's significant, I think, that this dream occurred more than twenty years after I actually loaded my books and files into boxes and moved out of that "interdisciplinary studies" ...
The Value of Stupidity: Negative Values in Academia
Jan 01, 2007; ... "The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. " (Psalm 12:8) "Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: contend with them that contend with me. " (Psalm 35:1) When the late fashion designer Gianni Versace stated in a charmingly blunt way, ...
What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U: Strategies for Avoidance, Salvage, and Survival
Jan 01, 2007; ... Quite briefly, I am that "ubiquitous iniquity," to steal a phrase from Shelby Foote. I am a "bad fit": 90%+ excellent teaching evaluations, the only book published by a current faculty member, department and campus service up the wazoo, glowing peer evaluations, verbal assurances of "no problems ...