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And The Envelope, Please: Tenured Radical Inaugurates the Spammies
Doesn't this look so too much like Elliot Spitzer?For reasons too mysterious to mention, I am in catch up mode and have no time to be clever or intelligent today. However, with the help of my spam...
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Network Down! And Other Thoughts On Shifting Our Educational Practice To A...
Yesterday the Zenith network went down. While the message that informed us that things were working again said something about a hardware upgrade, it is difficult to believe that they really intended...
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Studies In Sexism: Roseanne Barr Tells All In New York Magazine
Roseanne Barr, formerly the star of the hit TV sitcom Roseanne (1988-1997), now runs a macadamia nut farm in Hawai'i. However, she hasn't lost her wit or her bite, particularly when it comes to...
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The Chaz Project: Gender, Celebrity And The Emergence Of An FTM Activist
Chaz Bono, with Billie Fitzpatrick, Transition: The Story of How I Became A Man (New York: Dutton, 2011). 244 pages. Illustrations, index. $25.95.Becoming Chaz (Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,...
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Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Department: This Week's Sexual News In Review
Happier Days? Photo credit.I want to start out by saying that there are more men than Arnold Schwarzenegger who have children that they know about but did not acknowledge to their wives and the...
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Why Does The Sun Go On Shining? Why Does The Sea Rush to Shore?
The answer to these and other pressing questions can be found here, with a Big Hair Bonus. (And yes, I would embed, but YouTube won't let me. Buncha intellectual property pansies, if you ask me.)For...
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Do Girls Rule The World? A Response To Beyonce Inspired By A Young Feminist
It's really amazing what you can find on the interwebzA feminist vlogger who posts to YouTube under the the name NineteenPercent is responsible for an incisive critique of the new Beyonce song "Run The...
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Isn't It Time To Bring The State Back In? Thoughts On The Recent Pew Report...
If you have a Google alert on "college," as I do, you will know that the last week has been filled with pundits weighing in on the question of whether college is a worthwhile investment. This is...
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Celebrating The Greatest Generation (Of Women)
In case you didn't know it, today is Rosie the Riveter's 68th birthday. Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Samuel Redman is celebrating on The Berkeley Blog with a piece just published today, "Norman...
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Are Students A Captive Audience? Constructive Disagreement And Classroom...
The perfect teacher.Recently I was reading a discussion of the relationship between campus speech codes, sexual harassment, and free speech doctrine. Because I am not a legal scholar I won't dwell on...
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As The Department Turns: What Causes Conflict, Drama And Other Energy Sapping...
Things can explode when you least expect it! This week's Chronicle of Higher Education features a blog post by David Perlmutter entitled "It's Not Your Fault." Aimed mostly at helping assistant...
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The Berkshire Conference: What To Do, What To See, What To Wear
In the introduction to her classic volume of essays, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America(Oxford: 1986), Carroll Smith-Rosenberg wrote:The Berkshire Conference of Women...
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Berks Highlights: There's Got To Be A Morning After (If You Can Make It...
Sarah Palin is not at the Berkshire ConferenceThe sun is finally shining in Amherst, after a day and a night of severe weather that created delays, cancellations, and flights diverted to places like...
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What's More Fun Than Feminist History? More Berkshire Conference Highlights
Iacovetta presents at an event that makes me want to go to CanadaThe 15th Berkshire Conference is finishing up with a business meeting as I write here at my desk in Shoreline, a meeting where outgoing...
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On Political Conversation, Or The Lack Thereof: A Provocation To Debate
"Balogna?" Really? Photo Credit.On the op-ed page of today's Grey Lady, liberal Paul Krugman explains why expanding Medicare will save money. On the other side of the page, Ross Douthat explains why...
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Every Graduate A Potential John Dillinger: An Incomplete History Of Student...
Banks seestudent loan defaulters as white collar banditsBack in 1981, a New York friend of mine went to the bank shortly after payday to find that hir checking account was abso-total-lutely empty....
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Too Badgered? Biddy Martin Leaves Wisco Chancellorship, Heads To Amherst As...
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that Carolyn A. ("Biddy") Martin will leave her post as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and become President of Amherst College. However, she...
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Question: Why Do Development Offices Raise Money For Sports When Academics...
I've got an idea: let's run a fund-raiser for the humanities!Answer: Because the entertainment value of major sports for fans, alumni/ae and students -- primarily the football and basketball programs...
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Tell Me How You Really Feel, Dude: Prof Said To Have Peed On Colleagues'...
We at Tenured Radical have been alerted by our pals in the legit educational press (Inside Higher Ed) that there are many more reasons than we knew to hire more women in the STEM fields. Tihomir Petrov...
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A Radical History Review: A Perhaps Unnecessary, But Overdue, Tribute To My Dad
We at Tenured Radical no longer have a father to give presents to, or buy cards for, on Father's Day. When we did have a father, this is who he was. He probably had as many flaws as the next 1960s...
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Mr. DeMille, He's Ready For His Close-Up: Vito Russo And Gay Liberation
Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times Of Vito Russo(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011). 361 pp. Index, illustrations. $29.95 hardback.It is June, otherwise known by...
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In Sisterhood: Support The Strike At London Met's Women's Library
There's a long history of feminist resistance in EnglandEighteen months ago found your Radical in London. On the trail of radical feminist Leah Fritz, I had also decided to check out what archival...
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It's Moving Day: Tenured Radical Migrates To The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Yesterday around cocktail hour the sun was slipping over the virtual mountains when we at Tenured Radical heard the sound of galloping pony hooves. Sitting on our front porch, surrounded by boxes and...
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