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Summary: Journalist Laura Sessions Stepp looks into the changing youth dating culture. Instead of the traditional dating to relationship to marriage path, more and more women (and men) are “hooking up,” creating a no-strings-attached sexual culture that lets participants change partners at will and without ever committing to each other.
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Thanks to everybody who voted on which books I should read on my bus ride home. I ended up taking Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni and Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl.
I finished Honeymoon in Tehran this morning, and although I didn’t love it as much as I loved Moaveni’s first book, Lipstick Jihad, I think it’s a book worth checking out. I decided I’m going to do a Q&A review about the book, since there was so much interest, so leave any questions you have in the comments and I’ll use them as I write.
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Today I had the honor of guest posting over at the Women Unbound Challenge blog. I wrote about the book that helped open my eyes to what the feminist movement could mean and inspired me to rethink my own political ideologies on the topic. To find out what the book was, head on over to [...]
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It’s been a quiet week here at the blog, but that’ s because I just needed a break from blogging. I just couldn’t think of much to write about, so I figured I’d just not write anything. In place of blogging, I got a lot of other things done. I finished reading Dangerous Laughter by [...]
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Lipstick Jihad is journalist Azadeh Moaveni’s memoir about growing up “Iranian in America and American in Iran.” As a child, Moaveni moved with her mother to southern California, then after college returned to Tehran to work as a journalist. While there, Moaveni discovers a country going through a sort of adolescent struggle to find [...]
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My friend Phil pointed out an article in bitch magazine called “Bite Me (or Don’t)” which is a feministy literary criticism of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Do not read the article if you hate spoilers, the article covers events that happened throughout the entire series. I’m not much worried about spoilers, so I didn’t mind, [...]
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This weeks Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) was to pair up with another Weekly Geek and do book interviews. I was paired with Christine from She Reads Books. Interestingly enough, we both chose to interview each other about memoirs, written by female authors, exploring cultures vastly different [...]
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What do a paint tester, orthopedic surgeon, doll sculptor, and race car driver have in common? They are just four of the unique careers held by women featured in Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work, the third book in the This Day in the Life series by Joni B. Cole [...]
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This weeks Monday Tally is pretty heavy on articles from MSN, which is probably a good indication that I didn’t have as much time to randomly surf the internet as I usually do. Instead, most of the things I read came from links off my homepage, a vicious cycle of being spoon-fed articles from a [...]
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