It’s finally snowing in Massachusetts! My afternoon meetings were cancelled, and I can settle in by the fire and enjoy the peaceful quiet that always descends when we hunker down under a good New England snowfall. This gives me a welcome chance to share something positive for a change with my blog readers. Tomorrow is [...]
All posts for the month February, 2012
Starving women, American chic style
Barely have the baubles of the Oscars faded into Hollywood history, when the bleak news of the real world comes flooding back in. School shooting in a high school cafeteria in Ohio. Keystone XL pipeline permit back on the table. Rick Santorum is arguing against the separation of church and state, and thumbing his nose [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 27, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/starving-women-american-chic-style/
From war games to peace games, it’s time to stop playing games
I am having an uncomfortable feeling of déjà-vu as the winds of March come up, blowing us headlong into an uncertain spring. Ten years ago we were reeling in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Governments and the media were howling for retaliation, and the massive U.S./NATO war machine was gearing up for a fight, [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 25, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/from-war-games-to-peace-games-its-time-to-stop-playing-games/
Taking responsibility for the violence
I have to admit that I was not paying much attention to the bombardment of the city of Homs, Syria—now in its 20th day—before the deaths of two Western journalists there this week. That is completely typical of me as a Western observer sitting comfortably at my desk, far from the tumult and terror of [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 23, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/taking-responsibility-for-the-violence/
Calling on President Obama: Be Our Warrior for Peace
Although most Americans think of Presidents’ Day mainly in terms of sales on home appliances and electronics, as well as a welcome mid-winter day off, it’s worth stopping to think for a moment about what we are actually celebrating on this day. Why take a day out of the national calendar to honor Washington and [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 20, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/calling-on-president-obama-be-our-warrior-for-peace/
Out of the mouths of babes….
One of the most interesting aspects to me of Carol Gilligan’s research on childhood psychological development is her finding that as girls and boys mature, they lose touch with the instinctive, joyful, totally honest voice they were born with. To some extent, this is necessary. No one would want to live in a chaotic society [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 18, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/
Coming to Voice, Saving the Planet
Yesterday acclaimed psychologist Carol Gilligan paid a visit to the class I am currently co-teaching at Bard College at Simon’s Rock with theater professor Karen Beaumont, “Human Rights, Activism and the Arts.” Gilligan’s ground-breaking book, In A Different Voice, was the first to examine the psychological development of girls. Yes, you read that right. Before [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 17, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/coming-to-voice-saving-the-planet/
There’s More to Love Than Cupid and his Arrows
One of the reasons I was unhappy in the last five years or so of my marriage—which lasted 21 years—was because my husband, who had been so apparently social and outgoing when I fell in love with him, had become taciturn and isolationist. He scorned Valentine’s Day as a commercial holiday, and considered buying me [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 14, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/theres-more-to-love-than-cupid-and-his-arrows/
An Unlikely Environmental Evangelist
There were two reasons, many years ago, why I ended up choosing literature as my field of study rather than environmental studies or law. I was turned off from environmental studies, my initial choice for an undergraduate major, by a scary required statistics class and no options for getting remedial help to bring my weak [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 12, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/an-unlikely-environmental-evangelist/
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