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 [...]
All posts tagged gender politics
Starving women, American chic style
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 27, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/starving-women-american-chic-style/
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/
Paradigm Shift: From Competition and Destruction to Nurturance & Collaboration
I am almost 50 years old, and in my current lifetime I have lived through one of the most intense, rapidly changing periods of human civilization on this planet. The technological discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries were steadily gaining steam when I was born in the early 1960s; “progress” seemed infinite, and infinitely [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on July 19, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/paradigm-shift-from-competition-and-destruction-to-nurturance-collaboration/
