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Guest Post: Miss Representation
by Kirsten (Once a month, The Exponent will be featuring posts from members of the Exponent II board. This is the first in the series. Kirsten is a professional volunteer living in northern Indiana. She is married with two teenage … Continue reading
Pretty Pretty Princess
We are one week away from a huge cultural event…the inauguration of a new princess. The major news networks have a countdown to the royal wedding and are gleefully reporting any trivial detail they can get their hands on. It … Continue reading
Posted in body image, feminism, Gender roles, women, world news
Tagged body image, feminism, Gender roles
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up the hill (god, belief, sweat, etc)
The other morning I ran up Tumamoc hill. First time I’ve ever been able to run up the whole thing: It’s short, 1.5 miles to the top for a quick 3 mile round trip; but brutal steep: you climb up … Continue reading
pushing past comfortable
[I wrote this several months ago. Now I am in training for my first full length marathon.] Yesterday, a friend and I ran 13.1 miles. (Which involved getting up at 3:30 am to drive to a drop point on the … Continue reading
365 days
365 days ago, I started a project where I did a drawing every day. It is startling to look back and see how much just that little project has changed me over the course of this handful of days. I … Continue reading
The Young Women Program and the Emphasis on Beauty: Lessons in makeup?
by Caroline I don’t remember a whole lot about my YW experience, but I do remember one activity (fireside?) in particular. We went to a woman’s home in our stake. She was in her late 30′s and was a stay … Continue reading
How My Body Got Her Groove Back
The Year That Was took a toll on my body. I could talk about weight gain – 15 pounds in fewer months. But it was more than flabby arms that plagued me. Broken bones, misfiring hormones. I felt increasingly out … Continue reading
Modesty is in the Eye of the Beholder
by mraynes Before I left my job two weeks ago, one of my colleagues came into my office and asked to speak with me. She immediately started apologizing for the behavior of her adult son who had been volunteering at … Continue reading
Posted in body image, confidence, feminism, Mormon Life, Relationships, religion, women
Tagged body image, feminism, modesty, Mormon Life, Mormon women, Relationships
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Some Things Do Get Better With Age
by Caroline The other night, some friends and I were discussing getting older, and a few of us concluded that our 30’s were pretty great, compared with our angst filled 20’s. I just turned 31. While it’s kind of sad … Continue reading
"Feeling no shame": Sex and Menstruation
By Jana Recently I was having a discussion with a friend about whether or not to have sex during menstruation, and this love scene came to mind from LDS author Judith Freeman’s A Desert of Pure Feeling. The woman in … Continue reading
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Tagged body, body image, Judith Freeman, menstruation, Mormon literature, period, sex, sexuality
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