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 26, 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