WASPs: A Case For Equal Rights
by Dora Women Airforce Service Pilots. In a long overdue ceremony, the WASPs were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on July 1, 2009. What? You’ve never heard of them? Not too surprising, since their...
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Mistress of History
by mraynes I once had a boyfriend who told me that women have no history outside of their husbands and children. I was a young history major at the time and was only just...
The Times They Are A-Changin'
by mraynes I’ll be honest, sometimes I come home from church half-way resolved to never go back. (I say half-way because who am I kidding, I will stubbornly continue to go week after week,...
Exponent II Classics: Maelstroms and Me (excerpts)
the maelstrom of my mind Originally uploaded by onkel_wart Brett DeLange Boise, Idaho Volume 11, No. 3 (Spring 1985) …Maelstroms are powerful whirlpools that suck in objects within its radius. It was a maelstrom...
Exponent II Classic: Fear of Fasting
Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning by Anna Tueller Somerville, Massachusetts Originally Published in Exponent II, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Fasting had always been a window-cleaner that allowed me, at least for occasional...
A Snowflake in the Global Patriarchal Tradition
by mraynes As a feminist, I have been encouraged by the Church’s rhetoric on the equality of women and men, especially as it relates to marriage. I think that we can all agree that...
The Personal and The Political
By: mraynes Tomorrow we will elect the next president of the United States. In honor of this occasion and as a tribute to that old feminist adage that “the personal is political,” I am...
The 19th Wife: A Book Review
by AmyB A work of historical fiction interwoven with present-day mystery, The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff makes a timely debut in the era of HBO’s Big Love and the media frenzy surrounding Warren...
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