Posts Tagged ‘Gender Studies’
Hold the Chocolates while I Say Adios to Mr. and Mrs. Nag
February 8th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I think some people get nagging, I mean they get why it’s so tempting. I do. Nagging “the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignored and both become increasingly annoyed” defined last Wednesday by Elizabeth Bernstein, in the Wall Street Journal’s Meet The Marriage Killer: It’s More Common Than [...]
Tags: family, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage
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When Men Fall: Vulnerability as a Prerequisite for Heroes
January 25th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I believe that our beliefs about our humanity, our femininity and masculinity directly affect what we will do, how we will grow, how we will fail and how we will recover. I’ve only 200 pages left of Daniel Walker’s “God in a Brothel: An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking and Rescue” (these are iPhone pages, [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, motherhood, reviews, sex, vulnerability
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How to Spot . . . and How to Treat a Chauvinist
January 18th, 2012 by Jonalyn
I thought they were my friends, they were strong, attractive, Spanish guys. We were in the same honors math classes together. I wore a powder blue fitted dress with white patent leather pumps. The heels were carved of stacked wood, but the dress hit the 4″ above the knee rule. That day those men started [...]
Tags: feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, loving Jesus, marriage, prejudice
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New Year Wantings & Co-Parenting Safely Through Rapids
January 11th, 2012 by Jonalyn
Dale doesn’t think new year resolutions are all they’re cracked up to be. I tend to disagree, mainly because I’m a lover of opportunities to change in grandiose ways, ways I can write about and check up on. Dale is a changer in bits and pieces, he’s also big on changing when the need arises. [...]
Tags: envy, family, feminin/masculin-ity, Gender Studies, marriage, motherhood, spiritual growth
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Mercy for Christmas
December 14th, 2011 by Jonalyn
As a young girl I played “Mercy” with other friends. The wrist-bending game where the loser had to shout, “Mercy.” The word that meant punishment would end, the word that was embarrassing to yell. Dale and I watched an episode of Midsomer Murders last weekend. The kind vicar with the bitchy wife was the murderer. Several [...]
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What Corset Will You Wear This Holiday?
November 23rd, 2011 by Jonalyn
I used to love them, their hourglass shape. But corsets and I have a longish history of ambivalence. Their point is to re-shape, re-curve, re-move. As if our natural shape isn’t good enough. In “Femininity Beyond Fairy Tales” (from the introduction of Ruby Slippers) I make a list of the corsets we wear: the invulnerable athlete, [...]
Tags: beauty, Gender Studies, ruby slippers, spiritual growth
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Deaths of Playboys, Lives of Husbands
November 16th, 2011 by Jonalyn
Gunter Sachs with Brigitte Bardot – 1967 - Jean-Pierre Bonnotte/Gamma/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images I picked up the Wall Street Journal article “Death of the Playboy“ and learned that this author, Steve Garbarino was bemoaning their disappearance. The independently wealthy, smooth, womanizing playboys of yesteryear can be seen with topless models playing chess, in sports cars [...]
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