March 27, 2004
Wonder women
Posted by George H. Williams: "From Catherine Rodriguez, who organized the SHARP panels at this year's ASECS, I learned that eighteenth-century authors Fanny Burney and Hannah More made appearances in Wonder Woman comics as 'wonder women of history.'"
I would LOVE to see those issues.
Cross-posted to scribblingwoman.
February 7, 2004
On the gender front...
Plus ça change, plus c'est le meme chose. Here are two sobering links in this the year of the goddess 2004:
A woman sets off airport security alarms with the chastity belt her husband apparently forced her to wear. (Link from BlogsCanada)
(It was harrowing browsing through what came up when I googled "chastity belt." Who knew?? Somehow this is not what I imagine the proponents of sexual abstinence had in mind.)
Final chastity note: "Two historians say chastity belts are purely medieval myths." Medieval myth, contemporary reality. Huh!
Second link: Another reason not to buy fashion mags: here are two (1, 2) before and after pictures. (Link from feministe. feministe goes on to link to an "uglification" contest — whereby people Photoshop celebrity photographs — and I find it pretty offensive that for many people ugly = old.)
Cross-posted to scribblingwoman.