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My subject is self-fashioning from Greenblatt to Brown; in twentieth-century academia there were both selves and a sense that they could be fashioned. … Read the post self-fashioning in 20th-century academia: a tribute to Greenblatt
Both advocates and foes of the idea that women and men belong to different communication cultures ignore human evolution and biological reality. … Read the post women and men belong to different communication cultures?
International development organizations like Unbound, a sponsorship organization, are promoting gender bigotry worldwide against grass-roots resistance. … Read the post strong, independent Kenyan rejects Unbound gender bigotry
In the early 1850s, John Varden assembled a collection of hair samples from the first 14 US presidents. That’s pioneering work in bio-informatics. … Read the post hair samples from first 14 US presidents thanks to John Varden
Decameron II.7, misunderstood as the story of Alatiel, is a satire of social myth understood romantically. Story-telling can’t return dead men to life. … Read the post Alatiel's sexual experience, dead men: a limit of story-telling