Tag: Feminism

• October 1, 2013

  How can a man embody manliness after three waves of feminism? (Part 1)

  First wave feminism, beginning in the late nineteenth century, called into question the idea that women were especially well-suited for running household affairs and thus were ill-suited to taking an active part in the affairs of the city. Hence, the shift effected: from private anonymity to public visibility. Around the 1960s during the Vietnam Era,…
• February 20, 2012

  ‘I arrived a bit early…’: How Susan made it to Chinatown

  On Tuesday night in the hours before the rain came, she’d brought Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag over to my place (to read part 1 of the story, go here or simply look one column over to your right) and placed it on the orange chest next to my copies of Seneca’s letters…