Reading “The Veil and The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam,” by Fatima Mernissi
Jul 27, 2020
islam & religion & quotes
I read Mernissi’s book some years ago, and it was an instructive journey into my own ignorance about Islam, particularly about an aspect of that
from “Pluralism and Its Discontents: The Case of Blacks and Jews,” by Cheryl Greenberg
Jul 20, 2020
jewish & race & quotes
Twenty five years or so ago, not too long after I first started teaching at the college where I am still a professor, one of my colleagues—the woman
from Male Lust
Jul 13, 2020
quotes
Because a privileged man’s life is “unremarkable,” he is less likely to know how his social position affects his life. A “white” man knows he is
from Male Lust
Jul 6, 2020
quotes
“Think of a judicial system that not only favors heterosexuality but reserves its favor for specific types of heterosexuality: not S/M—that could
from God’s Phallus, by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Jun 1, 2020
quotes & feminism & jewish
If the deity is the father writ large, then this divine masculinity is by no means simply a confirmation of human masculinity. It is at the same
from “The Necessity to Speak,” by Sam Hamill
May 25, 2020
poetry & quotes
“The true poet gives up the self. The I of my poem is not me. It is the first person impersonal, it is permission for you to enter the experience