Posts tagged "sarah palin"
Bachmann’s “Evangelical Feminism”
Kathryn Montalbano: What is meant by "feminist"--the inherently problematic, unfixed term that often causes pangs of discomfort when mustered as a fighting word--varies not merely across historical and contemporary time and space but also within individual countries and regions. In the 1970s, for instance, the feminist movement in America was starkly divided in the public...
From the Mouths of Babes
Abby Ohlheiser:
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
-- T.S. Eliot
Here's a video of a 17-year-old girl praising God, palms up, in a snow-white dress, as she receives the crown and sash of Miss America. Teresa...
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
-- T.S. Eliot
Here's a video of a 17-year-old girl praising God, palms up, in a snow-white dress, as she receives the crown and sash of Miss America. Teresa...
Palin’s ‘Blood Libel’
Sarah Palin has a video out this morning that addresses the criticism she's received in the wake of the Arizona shootings, sort of. It's an odd piece of self-defense, chock full of God, American exceptionalism and claims of victimhood. Media Matters sums it up: "Violent rhetoric doesn't inspire violence -- but criticism...
Contesting the Sharia:
The Ideological Interpretation
(and Misinterpretation) of Islamic Law
by Najam Haider
The proposed construction of a mosque in the vicinity of Ground Zero in New York City has raised an outcry from a number of critics including (but not limited to) former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and former Speaker of the House (and potential 2012 presidential candidate) Newt Gingrich. In a July 28, 2010...
Christian Nation, Again
What does Sarah Palin mean when she says, as she adamantly did last week at a Women of Joy conference in Kentucky, that the U.S. is a Christian nation? Much was written during the presidential campaign about Palin's religious beliefs, but in this particular instance she was responding to a...
