All posts tagged "National Women'S Studies Association"

[rebelmouse-image 24747982 original_size="391x334" expand=1]So last week I was helping with the Seal Press booth at the National Women's Studies Association conference in Cincinnati, so I took the opportunity to get some books that they put out that I've wanted to read but haven't gotten around to yet. One was a book I've been eyeballing for awhile, with equal parts enthusiasm and dread: Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness, an anthology edited by Diane Mapes. I was eager, because I wanted to read single women talking about being single in honest ways, because right now 99.9% of pop culture references to single women carry the assumption that single women are primarily interested in not being single. And that's not been my experience of single life at all. On the other hand, I dreaded reading it because I feared that there would be a lot of New-Agey-love-your-broken-self-as-is stuff that doesn't go far enough in exposing myths, especially the wrong myth that being single equals being unhappy for women.

Heading towards Cincinnati for the National Women's Studies Association conference. Which means blogging might be a bit haphazard over the weekend. For those who are attending, the general plan is that I'm helping Seal Press with tabling, so stop by and say hi.