The other week, I asked my boyfriend a question that not many college men like to hear:" Do
you consider yourself a feminist?" He seemed a bit taken aback and after a few quiet …

Whatever became of the women of the Silent Generation, those coeds of the fifties who took
lecture notes while knitting argyle socks for their boyfriends—and never dropped a stitch …

During the summer of 2004, I joined the herd of interns that descends upon Capitol Hill in
Washington, DC, each summer. My assignment? To work in the Office of Senator Richard …

Mabel Davis is a trim, energetic woman of 44 who lives in a mid-size city. This fall Mabel
sent her youngest child off to a prestigious Eastern university and enrolled herself in the …

Feminism is a dirty word. It conjures images of whiny, bitchy women with sanctimonious
complaints about men. And the men who call themselves “feminist”? If they aren't simply …

This is a story about how I changed at college. It's a story about naivete, growing up and
shedding the blinders of privilege that have kept me, a white, middle-class quasi-riot grrrl …

This thesis examines factors that contribute to the “leaky pipeline” between journalism
programs and the newsroom. University journalism programs are predominately composed …

A fter five years of university teaching I find myself unemployed, with no prospect of finding
an academic job. My position wasn't phased out-others are teaching my courses this year …

WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES, I still see her there, this eighteen-year-old version of myself, 1
gazing out my college-dorm window at protestors on the street below. It was 1981, my first …