Has anyone read The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner ? I was looking through my bookmarks again today and came across this. The feminist in me is curious, the historian in me is curious from a historiographic perspective(oh Jenna, you were so right about that class. It was A LOT of reading but, probably my favorite class this semester), but ( Read more... )

Have you ever sat down and listened to a song, especially one from when you were younger, and realized that you were missing what the song was about because you had only heard a portion of it? I had two of those moments today in American Music Traditions class. The first song was "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Gunthrie. I remember learning it in ( Read more... )

I think I may have talked about this before, but my school's Film Department hosts these film series every semester (though now that I think about it, they've had lik 3 this semester. The Bob Dylan one, the Silent Clowns and now this the current one). Right now they are running a film series on movie musicals of the late 20s and 30s. I'm positive ( Read more... )

Today in World History we were talking about Eleanor of Aquitaine and her "Court of Love". It got me thinking about love and particularly the idea of courtly love. Courtly love is that sort of love that one usually associates with knights and princesses, in which a subservient male tries to do everything in his power to prove his worth to usually a ( Read more... )