"academics" Articles & Blogs:
Confessions of a new fan, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love women's basketball"
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I have never played a game of basketball.
I have never even shot a basketball.
And had you asked me a year ago about basketball, I would have looked at you blankly and asked, "Doesn't it stop like, every five minutes?" or tried to comp...[Read on] |
What’s a “Sorority Girl” like? Break the Stereotype and See the Woman
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Sorority girl: the name carries with it a slew of both positive and negative connotations. Though many sororities are founded on high moral standards, the most widely-held perceptions about its members reflect the complete opposite and can be harmful.Let&...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Board of Review
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Carey Mulligan
The National Board of Review (NBR) handed out its awards for 2009 and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air (which is opening in limited release today) took top honors. NBR is a mysterious group. Some film people, some folks not in the bus...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: A Little Bit Married
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In this research-packed, story-rich, sociological-self-help hybrid, journalist Hannah Seligson coins a long overdue term for something so many of us have experienced: "a little bit married." You know...you move in, meet parents and siblings, invest in tel...[Read on] |
Female athletes outperform their male counterparts in college
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College athletes are still setting records and dispelling myths — in the classroom.
The NCAA’s latest graduation numbers show nearly four out of five student-athletes earn their diplomas on time, an all-time high, and federal statistics show athletes...[Read on] |
Academics Put Japan's Hostess Culture in Context
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Check out this interesting round up of responses to the controversial New York Times article on Japan's hostess culture. In the original article, the following phenomenon was explored:
with that line of work, called hostessing, among the most lucrative j...[Read on] |
Molly Haskell’s Feminist Take on Gone with the Wind
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Molly Haskell is the shit when it comes to writing about women’s films with a feminist perspective. There is no one better. Her book From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies is one of the best books about women in film and it...[Read on] |
As Supreme Court Nomination Speculation Heats Up, Keeping Our Eyes on the Bigger Prize
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I have an article up on RH Reality Check today about the SCOTUS nominations. Check it out. A taste:
Few things excite politics junkies quite as much as an impending Supreme Court nomination - it’s the Kentucky derby for law nerds, with media-makers...[Read on] |
Book Alert: Bitten By Twilight Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise
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Twilight has infiltrated the academy!
Several professors have put together a book of essays looking at the Twilight phenomenon. I came upon the book because I have been following Professor Melissa Click’s feminist analysis of Twilight in my book re...[Read on] |
Transcript of President Obama’s comments to UConn women’s basketball team
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“Hello everybody. Please have a seat. Have a seat.
Well, welcome to the White House, everybody. Congratulations to the UConn Huskies on your second straight undefeated season and your second straight NCAA championship. I want to point out this team h...[Read on] |
Secretary Clinton to Launch Women’s World Cup Initiative
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Pretty Smart! On Monday June 6, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will launch the Women’s World Cup Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports. The event, which will be streamed live on www.state.gov. will take place 9:30 am...[Read on] |
Against the odds: Girls in urban areas face unique challenges in playing sports
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.Katie Thomas has written two parts of a series for the New York Times looking at the unique challenges facing urban girls who want to play sports
Her first piece, about a middle school basketball team in Brooklyn, highlights challenges facing the gir...[Read on] |
Interview with Lone Scherfig - Director of An Education
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Danish director Lone Scherfig is one of several women being mentioned this year for a potential best director nomination for her critically acclaimed film An Education. Here’s what I wrote earlier about the film. She took some time to answer some qu...[Read on] |
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