I used to think no TV show could possibly be more insulting to women than The Bachelor. Each season since its 2002 debut, one mind-numbingly dull guy after another (chiseled jaw, six-pack abs) weeds through 25 “eligible” women to find the perfect wife. Someone good at listening. Willing to pick up and move wherever he […]
Author: Amy Boesky
Amy Boesky is Associate Professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches creative nonfiction and early modern literature and culture (including courses on early women writers). She’s written both for children and for adults, and most recently is the author of What We Have (Penguin/Gotham 2010), a memoir about her family’s experience with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Visit her website at amyboesky.com.