Name: Violet Strange Occupation: Girl detective and debutante Location: New York City, 1899 As seen in: The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, by Anna Katharine Green Violet Strange is a character, created by Anna Katharine Green for her mystery...
Dr. Athena Bellas has a fantastic blog and podcast called Teen Screen Feminism which explores ‚Äì in her words ‚Äì the “non-academic discussion of all the ideas around feminism, screen cultures, and girlhood.” It’s...
Dora Thewlis was born in 1890. She was one of seven children of a working-class family in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Her parents were proud of her curiosity and integrity. Her mother Eliza described her in glowing terms: “Ever since...
In my last post I looked at the ways in which pornography has the potential to negatively impact people on both a societal and sexual level. How it can influence our perception of sex, work to encourage sexual deviance and misogynistic attitudes, and how it is seen by...
Decades ago, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This theory is coming back to bite legislators who signed the notorious bathroom bill in North Carolina in March. Since the...