Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on May 18, 2015 I wrestle intellectually from time to time with the issue of god and gender. Maybe you do, too. Over time, I’ve grown skeptical about the importance of gender to divinity, as gender seems like a human issue, whereas God, to me, is unfathomably beyond…
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Getting Real about Cultural Illusions: Review of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on February 18, 2015 A title like “Bad Feminist” is about as rhetorically effective as it gets: it’s divisive, it’s evocative, it’s thought provoking, it’s maddening, and it’s badass. The simple act of placing a moralistic modifier before “feminist” pulls you in as much as it irksomely pushes…
Review of The Queer Cultural Work of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on November 21, 2014 Jennifer Reed’s The Queer Cultural Work of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, released by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2013, will be of interest to an array of readers, particularly to Tomlin fans and those with an interest in queer theory and gender studies. As…
Free-Diving Off the Banks of Normal: A Review of Debbie Taylor’s Herring Girl
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on September 7, 2014 Debbie Taylor’s release of Herring Girl takes us where we’re not yet comfortable but dying to go: beyond normal. The novel interweaves lives, past and present, in a saga that will make you scoff at the absurdity, sigh at the humanity, and sink into…
Personal-Political Review of New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on November 18, 2013 A month ago, I eagerly asked Gender Focus editor, Jarrah Hodge, to review New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and Subjectivity. And pumped I was when I received this collection of provocative scholarly essays with beyond-scholarly import that engage gender from different perspectives but with broad-mindedness…
Headmistress Press + Hexmistress Jess 