by Julia NOTE: When I watch SATC, I’m not trying to focus on the whiteness, thinness, richness, heterosexualness. That is all a given. So if you’re looking for that in a post, look elsewhere – there’s plenty on that. Or talk to me. Just don’t critique me for my hypocrisy. thanks Last evening, I went [...]
Posts Tagged ‘privilege’
Sex and the City II: (Privileged) Women’s Voices
Posted in Movies, tagged Abu Dhabi, andrew o'hehir, Bechdel test, Burqa ban, capitalism, carrie, charlotte, escapism, feminism, lawyer, louboutin, materialism, Michael Patrick King, miranda, niqab, orientalism, privilege, Salon, samantha, Sarkozy, SATC, SATC2, sex and the city, United Arab Emirates, Wajahat Ali on 05/30/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Simone de Beauvoir Talks the Talk
Posted in Books, tagged A Dangerous Liaison, Carole Seymour-Jones, feminism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mai 68, marxism, misogyny, mongamy, Paris, patriarchy, polyamory, praxis, privilege, relationships, Simone de Beauvoir, theory on 01/03/2010 | 7 Comments »
by Julia I spent the first week of winter break devouring Carole Seymour-Jones’s A Dangerous Liaison, a “revelatory new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.” I ordered this book in September, but wanted the time to fully devote to its 540+ pages. Relative isolation in south Florida with my parents, iPod, and beach [...]
